THE POLITICS OF MEMORY
LETTER FROM GERMANY about the controversy over the proposed Holocaust memorial in Berlin. It could be said that in the fifty years since the war in Europe …
On Germany's relationship with the past: "They have a stubborn, almost innocent German faith that their past is like their prime rate or their G.N.P.—something that with a good plan and a lot of attention can be adjusted, refreshed, pressed into the service of the new German nation."