Volume 9, Number 7 · October 26, 1967
A Sense of the Past
By F.H. Hinsley
Germany, Yesterday and Tomorrow
by Peter H. Merkl
Oxford, 366 pp., $7.50
The Germans and their Modern History
by Fritz Ernst, translated by Charles M. Prugh
Columbia, 164 pp., $4.50
Fritz Ernst delivered these lectures in 1961-2 at the University of Heidelberg, where from 1937 until his death in 1963, except for a spell in the army in the first half of the Second World War, he was Professor of Medieval and Modern History. His object was to convince his audience that if they wish to continue as a nation the Germans 'must come if not to a uniform, at least to a prevailing interpretation of their history'—particularly of their history since the beginning of this century—by honestly confronting and discussing it. The book is thus part of the swelling but still confused debate among Germans over an issue which they cannot avoid.
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