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Feindbild Amerika: Über die Beständigkeit eines Ressentiments
Amerika repräsentiert die Moderne - kulturell, politisch, ökonomisch. Als Land der Zukunft versetzt es alle in Furcht, die sich um ihre Traditionen gebracht fühlen. Längst dienen die USA als Projektionsfläche für alle Übel dieser Welt. In einem scharfsichtigen Essay analysiert Dan Diner das „Feindbild Amerika“ - seine Ursprünge, seine Wandlungen, seine aktuellen Auswüchse.
„Das Unverständnis der Deutschen, aber nicht nur der Deutschen, für angelsächsische Traditionen und amerikanische Wirklichkeit ist eine alte Geschichte.“ Hannah Arendt
„Das Unverständnis der Deutschen, aber nicht nur der Deutschen, für angelsächsische Traditionen und amerikanische Wirklichkeit ist eine alte Geschichte.“ Hannah Arendt
238 pages, Hardcover
Published October 1, 2002
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August 2, 2020
pg. 130-131:
"[In the immediate postwar period] there was no trace of excitement towards America. The reality of the recent Allied bombing war- blamed exclusively on the English and Americans- reinforced an already existing resentment towards the "Anglo-Saxons". In addition, during the last months of the war, National Socialist propaganda did its part to consolidate stereotypical images. Rumours were a specialty of Goebbels, and so it was said in 1944/45 that an American "decree of enslavement for the German people" had been issued. False reports were circulated, such as the story that the civilian population was "forced to clean up the German artillery fire under negro guard"; German children, who were tempted by American chocolate temptations, were kidnapped, others were "murdered by drunken Negroes".
Very interesting to note the degree of anti-U.S. sentiment in the decade following the Second World War.
"[In the immediate postwar period] there was no trace of excitement towards America. The reality of the recent Allied bombing war- blamed exclusively on the English and Americans- reinforced an already existing resentment towards the "Anglo-Saxons". In addition, during the last months of the war, National Socialist propaganda did its part to consolidate stereotypical images. Rumours were a specialty of Goebbels, and so it was said in 1944/45 that an American "decree of enslavement for the German people" had been issued. False reports were circulated, such as the story that the civilian population was "forced to clean up the German artillery fire under negro guard"; German children, who were tempted by American chocolate temptations, were kidnapped, others were "murdered by drunken Negroes".
Very interesting to note the degree of anti-U.S. sentiment in the decade following the Second World War.
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