Author: Fritz Ster
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: germanys, five
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2007-07-24
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0374530866
ISBN-13: 9780374530860

The �German question� haunts the modern world: How could so civilized a nation be responsible for the greatest horror in Western history? In this unusual fusion of personal memoir and history, the celebrated scholar Fritz Stern refracts the question through the prism of his own life. Born in the Weimar Republic, exposed to five years of National Socialism before being forced into exile in 1938 in America, he became a world-renowned historian whose work opened new perspectives on the German past. Stern brings to life the five Germanys he has experienced: Weimar, the Third Reich, postwar West an