[extropy-chat] 'History' and the fulcrum of 1945

[Amara Graps]

Dear Hubert,

I wish the author: Modris Eksteins of _Walking Since Daybreak_
interviewed you for his historical vignettes. His stories
displayed a little wider variation of German responses after the
war, than your personal experiences (thank you so much for that).
That is, the type of responses of which you wrote (Stunde Null,
vacuum) plus negation and disbelief, anger, confusion. He said
that he didn't see any kind of collective guilt, though, so I
wonder if these differences depended on specific places where
your family and he  (the author) were located in Germany, or
maybe he went through Germany too quickly to know it well. The 
author  did a superb job showing the ironies, and the very gray 
(certainly not black-and-white), of the events, which sometimes 
made it impossible to know who was victim and perpetrator. 
I recommend this book to you.

Amara