More Reconciliation than Truth
David Blackbourn: Germany’s Postwar Amnesties, 31 October 2002
Adenauer’s Germany and the Nazi Past: The Politics of Amnesty and Integration
by Norbert Frei, translated by Joel Golb.
Columbia, 479 pp., £24.50, September 2002,0 231 11882 1 Show More
by Norbert Frei, translated by Joel Golb.
Columbia, 479 pp., £24.50, September 2002,
“... book, The Inability to Mourn, on the collective German repression of painful memories after 1945. Norbert Frei pursues the same theme by examining political debates in the early years of the Federal Republic. His book originally appeared in 1996 with the title Vergangenheitspolitik (the ‘politics of the past’, or ‘policy for the past’), a term ... ”