The qualifications of an author to write about his or her subject are rarely so well established in an opening line as Michael Hans Kater’s are in the first sentence of After the Nazis: The Story of Culture in West Germany: "On Tuesday, May 1, 1945, I was drying a small collection of Hitler stamps on the windowsill of my grandfather's house in a small village near Bremen in North Germany." Kater, a distinguished research professor emeritus of history at York University whose work has covered a wide range of German history, here finishes a trilogy of work concerning, respectively, culture in the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, and, now, just what the subtitle of this new work says.
The Nobel laureate, who died this week, helped Germany find its voice after the horrors of World War II. But his life ultimately embodied his nation's struggles to come to terms with its past.
Für den Erhalt der Demokratie fährt gerade ein alter Bulli durch Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Eine Werbekamapgne für die Wahl unter dem Titel "In welcher Gesellschaft wollen wir leben", ohne Parteiwerbung - organisiert von der Koeppen-Stiftung.
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