What obstacles were there to the re-establishment of Jewish life in occupied Germany and in the two German states during the 1950s, and to what extent were they overcome?

The Second World War was over and the Jewish survivors came out of the concentration camps and their hiding - places in the year 1945. Most of the survivors had the conviction that the dimension of the crimes had put an end to anti-Semitism in both German states. However the reality looked different: In the first decade of the post - war period in Germany, a virulent anti-Semitism in society as well as in politics existed …

…Cologne synagogue, the first positive developments in the educational system were made. Schoolbooks were revised and the chapter of anti - Semitism became a topic for itself in the curriculum. Nonetheless it took longer for sufficient changes to come into effect. For example the topic of the Holocaust was not adequately dealt with until after the Yom Kippur war had taken place in 1973 and the broadcast of a television series "Holocaust" in 1979 highlighted the issue.