eBOOK (PDF): AJC AND GERMANY – History in the Making, 1945–2020 – by Deidre Berger | AJC

eBOOK (PDF): AJC AND GERMANY – History in the Making, 1945–2020 – by Deidre Berger | AJC

AFTER THE END of the Second World War, following the Nazi Final Solution that annihilated six million of Europe’s nine million Jews, not to mention countless others, what would be the future relationship of Jews with Germany?
For some, the answer was both obvious and understandable: none. There was no conceivable way, they believed, to engage postwar Germany against the backdrop of what had befallen the Jewish people. Germany should be shunned at all costs, consigned to oblivion for eternity. For the leaders of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) at the time, however, the answer was different. It is not that they were any less horri-fied by the events of the previous 12 years; they were equally pulverized, of course…..