Volume 6, Number 5 · March 31, 1966
Whose Germany?
By Neal Ascherson
The Unloved Germans
by Hermann Eich
Stein & Day, 250 pp., $6.95
The Grand Design: A European Solution to German Reunification
by Franz-Josef Strauss
Praeger, 105 pp., $3.95
Germany Between East and West: The Reunification Problem
by Frederick H. Hartmann
Prentice-Hall, 181 pp., $4.95
No page in Mr. Eich's book gives as much pleasure as one of the plates: a photograph of a junkyard of German monumental statuary taken in 1945. There in a frenzy of scowling, gesticulating scrap they lie: Germania waving a laurel wreath on the end of a fat arm, bare-chested Hermann bulging his iliac muscles at a headless woman with drooping breasts, sightless busts with the sneer of command, fit young mothers with their hair in buns offering small Aryans up to a pagan sun. An isolated jackboot sprouts from a pedestal. Verdigris and old gasoline drums bed the heroes down.
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