Disgrace

Kurt Hiller published a collection of articles against § 175 in 1922 .

Shame is colloquially (obsolete) the opposite of fame , a highly personal blemish because of a despicable act or omission.

Originally, however, it meant a particularly strong humiliation , while “ shame ” was a loss of honor that one had to ascribe to oneself. The phrase “ shame and shame ” marks the difference (cf. “disgrace”).

In ethno- and sociology the term belongs to the shame societies .

Pejoratively, the Peace of Versailles in 1919 was often referred to as a "shameful peace " because in it the blame for the outbreak of the First World War was attributed to the German Reich, which many Germans perceived as a war guilt lie and were publicly debated .

November 9, 1918 has often been referred to as the day of national disgrace in 1918 . On this day, the Social Democrat Philipp Scheidemann proclaimed the republic (and shortly afterwards Karl Liebknecht the Soviet republic ). Emperor Wilhelm II was deposed arbitrarily by Max von Baden ; he transferred the business of the Reich Chancellor to Friedrich Ebert (SPD). The German Reich became a republic.

During the Allied occupation of the Rhineland from 1919 to around 1930 , around 400 Afro-German occupation children were conceived in mostly consensual sexual relationships. These relationships and these children were referred to by contemporaries as "black disgrace" or " Rhineland bastards ". During the Nazi era , they were systematically discriminated against (the mothers were also denounced) and from 1937 onwards they were forcibly sterilized .

In sports and in sports reporting, the terms shame and shame are occasionally used. The elimination of Germany against arch rivals Austria at the Football World Cup 1978 in Argentina was described as the " disgrace of Córdoba ".

See also

• Shame for Germany

Web links

Wiktionary: Shame  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The origin of the phrase can be found in Luther's translation of Daniel 12: 2, where it says: "The others to eternal shame and shame".
2. ↑ Reiner Pommerin , Sterilization of the Rhineland Bastards. The fate of a colored German minority 1918–1937 , Droste, Düsseldorf 1979