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The Language of Human Rights in West Germany / Lora Wildenthal.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pennsylvania Studies in Human RightsPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780812244489
  • 9780812207293
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.014
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Human Rights Activism in Occupied and Early West Germany: The Case of the German League for Human Rights -- 2. Rudolf Laun and "German Human Rights" in Occupied and Early West Germany -- 3. Human Rights Activism as Domestic Politics: The International League for Human Rights, West German Amnesty, and the Humanist Union Confront Adenauer's West Germany -- 4. "German Human Rights" Enter the Mainstream: The Case of Otto Kimminich -- 5. Human Rights for Women across Cultural Lines: Terre des Femmes -- Conclusion -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary: Human rights language is abstract and ahistorical because advocates intend human rights to be valid at all times and places. Yet the abstract universality of human rights discourse is a problem for historians, who seek to understand language in a particular time and place. Lora Wildenthal explores the tension between the universal and the historically specific by examining the language of human rights in West Germany between World War II and unification. In the aftermath of Nazism, genocide, and Allied occupation, and amid Cold War and national division, West Germans were especially obliged to confront issues of rights and international law.The Language of Human Rights in West Germany traces the four most important purposes for which West Germans invoked human rights after World War II. Some human rights organizations and advocates sought to critically examine the Nazi past as a form of basic rights education. Others developed arguments for the rights of Germans-especially expellees-who were victims of the Allies. At the same time, human rights were construed in opposition to communism, especially with regard to East Germany. In the 1970s, several movements emerged to mobilize human rights on behalf of foreigners, both far away and inside West Germany. Wildenthal demonstrates that the language of human rights advocates, no matter how international its focus, can be understood more fully when situated in its domestic political context.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Human Rights Activism in Occupied and Early West Germany: The Case of the German League for Human Rights -- 2. Rudolf Laun and "German Human Rights" in Occupied and Early West Germany -- 3. Human Rights Activism as Domestic Politics: The International League for Human Rights, West German Amnesty, and the Humanist Union Confront Adenauer's West Germany -- 4. "German Human Rights" Enter the Mainstream: The Case of Otto Kimminich -- 5. Human Rights for Women across Cultural Lines: Terre des Femmes -- Conclusion -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments

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Human rights language is abstract and ahistorical because advocates intend human rights to be valid at all times and places. Yet the abstract universality of human rights discourse is a problem for historians, who seek to understand language in a particular time and place. Lora Wildenthal explores the tension between the universal and the historically specific by examining the language of human rights in West Germany between World War II and unification. In the aftermath of Nazism, genocide, and Allied occupation, and amid Cold War and national division, West Germans were especially obliged to confront issues of rights and international law.The Language of Human Rights in West Germany traces the four most important purposes for which West Germans invoked human rights after World War II. Some human rights organizations and advocates sought to critically examine the Nazi past as a form of basic rights education. Others developed arguments for the rights of Germans-especially expellees-who were victims of the Allies. At the same time, human rights were construed in opposition to communism, especially with regard to East Germany. In the 1970s, several movements emerged to mobilize human rights on behalf of foreigners, both far away and inside West Germany. Wildenthal demonstrates that the language of human rights advocates, no matter how international its focus, can be understood more fully when situated in its domestic political context.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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