Germans and the German Past
J.P. Stern, 21 December 1989
The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust and German National Identity
by Charles Maier.
Harvard, 227 pp., £17.95, November 1988,0 674 92975 6 Show More
by Charles Maier.
Harvard, 227 pp., £17.95, November 1988,
In Hitler’s Shadow: West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape from the Nazi Past
by Richard Evans.
Tauris, 196 pp., £12.95, October 1989,1 85043 146 9 Show More
by Richard Evans.
Tauris, 196 pp., £12.95, October 1989,
Why did the heavens not darken?
by Arno Mayer.
Verso, 510 pp., £19.95, October 1989,0 86091 267 1 Show More
by Arno Mayer.
Verso, 510 pp., £19.95, October 1989,
A German Identity, 1770-1990
by Harold James.
Weidenfeld, 240 pp., £16.95, March 1989,9780297795049 Show More
by Harold James.
Weidenfeld, 240 pp., £16.95, March 1989,
Die Republikaner: Phantombild der neuen Rechten
by Claus Leggewie.
Rotbuch, 155 pp., May 1989,3 88022 011 5 Show More
by Claus Leggewie.
Rotbuch, 155 pp., May 1989,
“... the ravages of the Black Death of 1348. (‘I would like to tell you, ladies and gentlemen,’ Franz Kafka told a German-speaking audience in Prague before a recital of visiting Yiddish poets, ‘how much more of the jargon you will understand than you think.’) This kinship was the reason why the Slavs, and the Hungarians too, denounced their Jews as ... ”
