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“I had this dream, this desire, this vision of 35 years – to see it all once more...” The Munich Visiting Program, 1960-1972

Gamoran, Jesse
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9311-9227
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1483517620887328

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2016, BA, Oberlin College, History.
In 1960, during a resurgence of anti-Semitism, the Munich government initiated a program to invite Jewish former residents of Munich (who left during the 1930s and early 1940s due to the Nazis) back to their hometown for two-week visits. This program offered the participants a chance to reminisce about their childhoods, reconnect with their heritage, and visit their former communities. For the government, this program provided a crucial connection between the old prewar Munich and the new Munich of the 1960s, between Munich as the birthplace of National Socialism and Munich as a newly rebuilt city, ready to move forward from the Holocaust. This thesis relies primarily on correspondence between program participants and the Munich government from the Munich City Archive, oral interviews with individuals involved with the program, and secondary sources about postwar Munich and historical memory.
Annemarie Sammartino (Advisor)
74 p.
European History; European Studies; Foreign Language; Germanic Literature; History; Holocaust Studies; Judaic Studies; Language; Modern History; Modern Language; Religion; Religious History
German History; Jewish History; Holocaust; Jew; National Socialism; National Socialist; Nazi; Munich; Visiting Program; Postwar; Hans-Jochen Vogel; Historical Memory; Alte Heimat; Besuchsprogramm; Einladungsprogramm; Muenchen; World War Two

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  • Gamoran, J. (2016). “I had this dream, this desire, this vision of 35 years – to see it all once more...” The Munich Visiting Program, 1960-1972 [Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1483517620887328

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Gamoran, Jesse. “I had this dream, this desire, this vision of 35 years – to see it all once more...” The Munich Visiting Program, 1960-1972. 2016. Oberlin College, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1483517620887328.

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  • Gamoran, Jesse. "“I had this dream, this desire, this vision of 35 years – to see it all once more...” The Munich Visiting Program, 1960-1972." Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1483517620887328

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