Dimensions
160 x 240 x 20mm
When the remarkable Louis Hagen returned to Berlin after the war, having survived not only Arnhem but also earlier incarceration and torture in a German concentration camp, it was through the desire to see the great German eagle toppled, its talons drawn. He also wanted to see what had happened to the people - were they humbled, were they wiser? He carefully selected nine people he had known from before the war - four Nazis, three collaborators, two non-Nazis - and interviewed them at length. He presents their own stories and their own thoughts in the same way, both the market gardener and the Baroness: `I leave the reader to judge for himself where the responsibility lies' and to fathom `the nature of the German disease; it may after all not be a `"German" disease, we may have to look for the symptoms in our own hearts.' Amidst the many hundreds of wartime memoirs Ein Volk stands alone as a record of the German people after the guns fell silent; and its immediacy makes it important history.
