Those Who Forget

Those Who Forget by Géraldine Schwarz

Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020 During the war, Géraldine Schwarz's German grandparents were neither heroes nor villains - they just followed the current. Afterwards they wanted to forget, to bury it all under the wreckage of the Third Reich. But decades later, delving through the basement of their apartment building, Geraldine discovers that her grandfather Karl profited from the forced 'Aryanisation' of Jewish businesses - and so she is compelled to investigate her ancestors' past. How guilty were they? Combining generations of family stories with the history of Europe's post-war reckoning, Géraldine asks: how did Germans transform their collective guilt into democratic responsibility? And, given rising populism in Europe today, how can we ensure we remember the crimes of the past?

Géraldine Schwarz is a German-French journalist, author and documentary filmmaker based in Berlin. Those Who Forget, an account of her family's complicity with fascism, is her first book. It has been translated into eight languages and won the European Book Prize 2018, the Winfried Preis and the Nord-Sud Prize.

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ISBN 13	9781782275350
ISBN 10	1782275355
Title	Those Who Forget
Author	Géraldine Schwarz
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pushkin Press
Year published	2020-09-24
Number of pages	320
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