Coming to Terms with the Past

Confronted with a landslide of accusations of unfathomable crimes (allegedly) committed by their nation during World War II, the Germans have had a hard time coming to terms with this 12 year period of their history. As a matter of fact, the German nation has become somewhat obsessed with this self-denigrating, autistic navel gazing, as a consequence of which its self-esteem has suffered considerably. Papers listed in this category deal with this aspect of the consequences of WWII.

  • If Germany Declared Peace

    Germany has been, since World War II, an occupied nation. No peace treaty has ever been signed, occupying armies still remain there—and Germany continues to function under a foreign constitution, prepared by the victors of WW2.[1] It owns a massive amount of gold, three and a half thousand tons of it, more than any country…

  • Gestapo USA

    William E. Winterstein, Gestapo USA. When Justice Was Blindfolded, Reed Publishers, San Francisco 2002, 261 pp. hc, $25.95 As part of “Operation Paperclip” shortly after World War II, the USA transported a number of captured German rocket scientists to Ft. Bliss, Texas, where they were kept under quasi arrest for almost two years. William Winterstein…

  • Nazifying the Germans

    Not long ago a German friend remarked to me, jokingly, that he imagined the only things American college students were apt to associate with Germany nowadays were beer, Lederhosen, and the Nazis. I replied that, basically, there was only one thing that Americans, whether college students or not, associated with Germany. When the Germans are…

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