Learning from the Germans – Susan Neiman
Walk the streets of Berlin, or any other German city, and you will not see a statue or any other …
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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 — Milton Mayer
Milton Mayer’s They Thought They Were Free, had long been on my reading list. By unhappy coincidence this turned out …
Exterminate All the Brutes – Sven Lindqvist
Sven Lindqvist begins his short, vital, disturbing Exterminate All The Brutes with the words, “You already know enough. So do …
A Small Circus – Hans Fallada; Small town life in 1929 Germany
One of the most memorable and powerful novels I have read in recent years is Hans Fallada‘s Every Man …
Fleeing War — Walter Kempowski: All for Nothing
War stories since The Iliad ( 8th century BCE) have been told to fascinate and celebrate physical courage, mental …
Downfall: The Last 10 Days of Hitler’s Reich
I remember being interested in seeing Downfall, the 2004 movie by Oliver Hirschbiegel when it came to theaters, and somehow getting the idea …
In The Garden of Beasts — a Review
All who have read about, and certainly those who experienced, World War II and Germany’s becoming the vicious murderer of its …
Every Man Dies Alone — Hans Fallada, Germany 1947
No less than Primo Levi, Herman Hesse and Thomas Mann have sung the praises of Hans Fallada, the novelist who …
The Edge of Heaven: A Film
The Edge of Heaven is a fine, too little seen, film from Turkey and Germany, a tale of sorrow and …