Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Human Rights Activism in Occupied and Early West Germany: The Case of the German League for Human Rights -- 2. Rudolf Laun and "German Human Rights" in Occupied and Early West Germany -- 3. Human Rights Activism as Domestic Politics: The International League for Human Rights, West German Amnesty, and the Humanist Union Confront Adenauer's West Germany -- 4. "German Human Rights" Enter the Mainstream: The Case of Otto Kimminich -- 5. Human Rights for Women across Cultural Lines: Terre des Femmes -- Conclusion -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
The Language of Human Rights in West Germany traces the four most important purposes for which West Germans invoked human rights after World War II. Lora Wildenthal demonstrates that human rights comprise a political language, best understood in its own domestic and historical context
