Those Who Forget by Geraldine Schwarz

Those Who Forget by Geraldine Schwarz

Makes] the very convincing case that, until and unless there is a full accounting for what happened with Donald Trump, 2020 is not over and never will be. --Susan Glasser, The New Yorker

Deserves to be read and discussed widely.This is Schwarz's invaluable warning. --Samantha Power, The Washington Post Book Review

Those Who Forget, published to international awards and acclaim, is journalist G raldine Schwarz's riveting account of her German and French grandparents' lives during World War I, an in-depth history of Europe's post-war reckoning with fascism, and an urgent appeal to remember as a defense against today's rise of far-right nationalism.

During World War I, G raldine Schwarz's German grandparents were neither heroes nor villains; they were merely Mitla fer--those who followed the current. Once the war ended, they wanted to bury the past under the wreckage of the Third Reich.

Decades later, while delving through filing cabinets in the basement of their apartment building in Mannheim, Schwarz discovers that in 1938, her paternal grandfather Karl took advantage of Nazi policies to buy a business from a Jewish family for a low price. She finds letters from the only survivor of this family (all the others perished in Auschwitz), demanding reparations. But Karl Schwarz refused to acknowledge his responsibility. G raldine starts to question the past: How guilty were her grandparents? What makes us complicit? On her mother's side, she investigates the role of her French grandfather, a policeman in Vichy.

Weaving together the threads of three generations of her family story with Europe's process of post-war reckoning, Schwarz explores how millions were seduced by ideology, overcome by a fog of denial after the war, and, in Germany at least, eventually managed to transform collective guilt into democratic responsibility. She asks: How can nations learn from history? And she observes that countries that avoid confronting the past are especially vulnerable to extremism. Searing and unforgettable, Those Who Forget is a riveting memoir, an illuminating history, and an urgent call for remembering.

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9781501199080
ISBN 10	1501199080
Titel	Those Who Forget
Autor	Geraldine Schwarz
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Verlag	Scribner Book Company
Erscheinungsjahr	2020-09-22
Seitenanzahl	320
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.