Full name: The German Trauma: Experiences and Reflections, 1938-2001

Author: Gitta Sereny Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780140292633 0140292632

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. The penetration 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. Similar books: Hitler's Beneficiaries by Gotz Aly The Nazi Conscience by Claudia Koonz The Nazi Seizure of Power by William Sheridan Allen The Third Reich in History and Memory by Richard J. Evans The Nazis by Laurence Rees The German Dictatorship by Karl Dietrich Bracher Backing Hitler by Robert Gellately The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution by Mark Roseman The Third Reich by Michael Burleigh The Third Reich in Power by Richard J. Evans The Nuremberg Interviews by Leon Goldensohn Nazi Terror by Eric A. Johnson The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans The Theory and Practice of Hell by Eugen Kogon Germany 1945 by Richard Bessel Dead Wake by Erik Larson The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer