Fritz Stern is University Professor Emeritus and the former provost of Columbia University. His books include The Politics of Cultural Despair (1963), Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichröder, and the Building of the German Empire (1977), and Five Germanys I Have Known (2006).
Books
No Ordinary Men
In No Ordinary Men, the story of two of the Nazi regime’s most courageous opponents—theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his brother-in-law Hans von Dohnanyi—Sifton and Stern demonstrate that resistance to the Nazi regime was larger and more complicated than usually depicted. In bringing to light this often overlooked chapter of history, the authors expand our understanding of the ways morality can endure in the face of depravity and horror.