Eine Heimkehr gibt es nicht? Remigration nach Osterreich

Embacher, Helga

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“…This becomes visible in the relatively frequent thematization of so-called 'emigrants' -a euphemistic term for Jewish Nazi expellees. At the time, 'emigrants' was easily understood as a swear word by large sections of society (Embacher 2001) and thus can be analysed as 'coded antisemitism' (see Wodak 2011). These 'emigrants' were portrayed as cowardly and/or privileged or intentionally causing harm and incapable of loving their homeland (Bischof 2017, 193ff.).…”

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What Parliamentary Rhetoric Tells Us About Changing Democratic Culture: Antisemitism in Austrian Parliamentary Debate as a Threat to Democracy

Bischof,

Löffler

2023

Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory

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The article aims to tease out the relationship between, on the one hand, changing rhetorical strategies for dealing with 'postwar-tabooed' antisemitism in the Austrian parliament and, on the other, shifts in democratic culture -that is, the expression of democratic equality in the publicly sayable. Starting from the theoretical assumptions that parliament symbolises democracy tout court and that parliamentarism is a 'rhetorical condition of democracy' (Kari Palonen), we seek to explore the nexus between parliamentary rhetoric and democracy in depth. We do so, first, by identifying the successive postwar rhetorical strategies for dealing with antisemitism in their (historical) political context and, second, by delineating how those strategies mark shifting boundaries of the sayable in relation to antisemitism in Austrian postwar parliamentary rhetoric. Third, we show how those strategies and shifts signify transformations of Austrian democratic culture and democracy and that this process has a gendered dimension. Methodologically, we draw on a multidisciplinary mix of qualitative approaches, combining discourse and rhetoric analysis, specialised approaches to the analysis of parliamentary debate, and Conceptual History.

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What Parliamentary Rhetoric Tells Us About Changing Democratic Culture: Antisemitism in Austrian Parliamentary Debate as a Threat to Democracy

Bischof,

Löffler

2023

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“…Austrian officialdom launched no initiatives to facilitate the return of these exiles, aside from a few who had performed particularly "meritorious service" abroad. The presence of thousands of Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe, the return of a small number of those who had been driven out and initial demands for compensation payments were already producing widespread antisemitism (Embacher 2001). Austrians even compared their suffering to that of the Jews, and leading Austrian politicians demanded that all victims of World War II-POWs and victims of the war's devastation as well as Jewish survivors-be treated equally, and that Sonderrechte (preferential treatments) ought to be avoided (Bailer-Galanda 2003).…”

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Controversies over Austria’s Nazi Past: Generational Changes and Grassroots Awakenings following the Waldheim Affair and the “Wehrmacht Exhibitions”

Embacher

2022

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In 1945, the Austrian government constructed a new identity based on having been a “victim” of Nazi Germany. Thus, it had to hush up the fact that a majority of the population had welcomed the Anschluss, hundreds of thousands joined the NSDAP and served in the German Wehrmacht, and many were involved in the crimes of National Socialism. Only in the late 1980s, in the wake of the Waldheim Affair, did the years between 1938 and 1945 have to be re-interpreted. Ten years later, the exhibition “War of Annihilation: Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941–1944” (short: Wehrmacht exhibition) questioned the myth of the “clean Wehrmacht.” Using the examples of the Waldheim Affair and the Wehrmacht exhibition, the article analyzes the influence of grassroots movements stimulated by these events. Since some members of the second generation defended the Wehrmacht rather than embracing the grassroots movements’ critique of earlier war myths, it will also problematize the category “generation.” Due to the leading role played by prominent Austrian Jews in these grassroots movements, the generational gap within the Jewish community is of further interest. I emphasize that the grassroots movements needed the support of Austrian political parties and from abroad to achieve a modicum of success.

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Austrian postwar democratic consensus and anti-Semitism

Bischof

2018

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This paper explores the relation between the use of anti-Semitic rhetoric in post-war Austrian parliamentary debate and the development of the consensus-oriented, corporatist model of Austrian democracy, the “consociational model,” between 1945 and 1955. Specifically, this paper examines the anti-Semitic stereotypes found in parliament, an arena where “the sayable” of official politics is defined, and whether such anti-Semitic stereotyping serves political-strategic purposes. The predominant pattern of exclusion proves to be the attribution of ambivalence, drawing on the repertoire of nationalist anti-Semitic stereotypes, depicting “emigrants” as “cowards,” incapable of love for and defense of their countries. The analysis shows this pattern of exclusion is rooted in an ethnicized, homogeneous, and masculinist understanding of the people – recurrent in contemporary right-wing movements and parties. It follows the lines of Carl Schmitt’s concept of the political, in which the distinction of “friend” and “enemy,” and hence, the eradication of pluralism and ambivalence, is pivotal.

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Eine Heimkehr gibt es nicht? Remigration nach Osterreich

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What Parliamentary Rhetoric Tells Us About Changing Democratic Culture: Antisemitism in Austrian Parliamentary Debate as a Threat to Democracy

What Parliamentary Rhetoric Tells Us About Changing Democratic Culture: Antisemitism in Austrian Parliamentary Debate as a Threat to Democracy

Controversies over Austria’s Nazi Past: Generational Changes and Grassroots Awakenings following the Waldheim Affair and the “Wehrmacht Exhibitions”

Austrian postwar democratic consensus and anti-Semitism

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