The Question of German Guilt by Karl Jaspers, S.J. Joseph W. Koterski

The Question of German Guilt



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Germany Since the early 2000s, there has been increasing interest in the question how Germans have remembered their experiences as victims of the Second World War. Cover for Slovenian edition of Karl Jaspers' The Question of German Guilt. In place of the long postwar period of economic growth in Germany, known as the Wirtschaftswunder, which saw some 4.8 million foreign workers attracted to the country, the situation now is that nearly 2 million German workers seek . He said this after Second World War. Otherwise rational and decent people will, one by one, genuflect and sign onto the stupid clichés and tiresome accusations that question your character, integrity and even sanity. After the war he resumed his teaching position, and in his work The Question of German Guilt he unabashedly examined the culpability of Germany as a whole in the atrocities of Hitler's Third Reich. Found in the chapter “The German Standard of Armament in the Year 1939″ in Udo Walendy, Truth for Germany: The Guilt Question of the Second World War (VIotho/Weser: Verlag für Volkstum und Zeitgeschichtsforschung, 1981). He was German philosopher, himself prosecuted by Nazis. New York, 1945), contains an essay by Hannah Arendt, titled “German Guilt”. Karl Jaspers, The Question of German Guilt (New York: Capricorn Books, 1961; reprint, New York: Dial Press, 1947). Muslim organizations routinely issue such statements when Muslims commit acts of terror, but the question remains whether such statements are enough. Should I compare my fear to the collective guilt of generations growing up on the other side, German children never wanting to question their parents or grandparents about their past? After the Second World War, the philosopher Karl Jaspers wrote a book on the question of German guilt, in which he distinguished four different types of guilt: criminal, political, moral and metaphysical. Margalit, Gilad: Guilt, Suffering, and Memory. One of those books, Jewish Frontier, Anthology 1934-1944 (Jewish Frontier Association, Inc.