Posts Tagged with ‘Germany’
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Learning from the Germans – Susan Neiman
06 Dec 2021Walk the streets of Berlin, or any other German city, and you will not see a statue or any other…
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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 — Milton Mayer
29 Oct 2021Milton Mayer’s They Thought They Were Free, had long been on my reading list. By unhappy coincidence this turned out…
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Exterminate All the Brutes – Sven Lindqvist
26 Jun 2021Sven Lindqvist begins his short, vital, disturbing Exterminate All The Brutes with the words, “You already know enough. So do…
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A Small Circus – Hans Fallada; Small town life in 1929 Germany
02 Apr 2019One of the most memorable and powerful novels I have read in recent years is Hans Fallada‘s Every Man…
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Fleeing War — Walter Kempowski: All for Nothing
18 Sep 2018War stories since The Iliad ( 8th century BCE) have been told to fascinate and celebrate physical courage, mental…
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Downfall: The Last 10 Days of Hitler’s Reich
04 Jun 2012I remember being interested in seeing Downfall, the 2004 movie by Oliver Hirschbiegel when it came to theaters, and somehow getting the idea…
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In The Garden of Beasts — a Review
29 Dec 2011All who have read about, and certainly those who experienced, World War II and Germany’s becoming the vicious murderer of its…
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Every Man Dies Alone — Hans Fallada, Germany 1947
07 Apr 2011No less than Primo Levi, Herman Hesse and Thomas Mann have sung the praises of Hans Fallada, the novelist who…
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The Edge of Heaven: A Film
02 Mar 2009The Edge of Heaven is a fine, too little seen, film from Turkey and Germany, a tale of sorrow and…
