Description
Product ID: | 9780140292633 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The German Trauma |
Subtitle: | Experiences and Reflections 1938-2001 |
Authors: | Author: Gitta Sereny |
Page Count: | 432 |
Subjects: | Biography and non-fiction prose, Prose: non-fiction, European history, History, Cultural studies, Far-right political ideologies and movements, European history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Cultural studies, Fascism & Nazism, Germany, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Gitta Sereny is one of the world's most respected journalists and historians. This book gathers together her writing on Germany. It amounts to a portrait of the country and its people, how they have come to terms with their Nazi past, both collectively and in specific instances - and how the burden of their guilt has altered the national identity. Gitta Sereny is one of the world''s most respected journalists and historians. This book gathers together the best of her writing on Germany from over sixty years. It amounts to an extraordinary portrait of the country and its people, how they have come to terms with their Nazi past, both collectively and in specific instances - and how the burden of their guilt has altered the national identity. She writes about key individuals - Stangl, Speer - and the questions which their lives raise. Thepenetration and conviction of her writing throughout is startling and she constantly reminds us why it is important to consider the questions she addresses - war guilt, holocaust denial and the temptations of obedience. |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2001-09-06 |