Volume 10, Number 2 · February 1, 1968
Unmodern Men
By Neal Ascherson
Society and Democracy in Germany
by Ralf Dahrendorf
Doubleday, 482 pp., $6.95
Between Eagle and Swastika: German Nationalism Since 1945
by Kurt P. Tauber
Wesleyan University Press, 2 volumes: vol. 1, 1,010, vol. 2, 605 pp., $35.00 (set)
Political extremism in West Germany these days bears the aspect of time travel. But it is travel in one direction—backwards. In the past weeks, I assisted at two hallucinatory scenes in which, from hour' to hour, it was necessary to pull out the daily newspaper and greedily drink in the information that in the outside world the year remained 1967.
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