Volume 33, Number 21 & 22 · January 15, 1987
The War of the German Historians
By Gordon A. Craig
Zweierlei Untergang: Die Zerschlagung des Deutschen Reiches und das Ende des Europäischen Judentums
by Andreas Hillgruber
Corso bei Siedler (Berlin), 112 pp., DM20.00
Dissonanzen des Fortschritts: Essays über Geschichte und Politik in Deutschland
by Michael Stürmer
Piper (Munich), 334 pp., DM39.80
Nach Hitler: Der Schwierige Umgang mit Unserer Geschichte: Beiträge von Martin Broszat
edited by Hermann Graml, edited by Klaus-Dietmar Henke
Oldenbourg (Munich), 326 pp., DM48
Nachdenken über die Deutsche Geschichte: Essays
by Thomas Nipperdey
Beck (Munich), 236 pp., DM38.00
In March 1856, the novelist Gottfried Keller wrote from Zurich to his Berlin friend Lina Duncker about the intellectuals and scholars who had fled to his native city after the revolutions of 1848 and found employment in the university and the new polytechnic institute. After talking about the activities of mutual friends, he completed his report by writing, 'For the rest, the German professors are continually in each others' hair.'
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