"Wie kann diese Generation eigentlich noch atmen?"
Briefe zu dem Buch Die zweite Schuld oder Von der Last Deutscher zu sein
Description:... A collection of excerpts from letters addressed to Giordano in reaction to his book on West German failure to accept responsibility for the Holocaust and prosecute Nazi war criminals (Hamburg: Rasch und Röhring, 1987). The majority of writers are non-Jews of the second or third generation, but others recall their childhood or young adulthood in the Nazi period. Both groups are, in the main, appreciative, either because Giordano's book opened their eyes or because it reinforced what they themselves had already felt. While most express shame over German guilt in general, a few deal specifically with Auschwitz and with the scarcely veiled antisemitism which they find in contemporary German society.
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