Dimensions
164 x 242 x 33mm
In Einstein's German World the eminent historian Fritz Stern explores the ambiguous promise of Germany before Hitler, as well as its horrifying decline into moral nihilism under Nazi rule, and aspects of its remarkable recovery since World War II. He does so by gracefully blending history and biography in a sequence of finely drawn studies of Germany's great scientists and of German-Jewish relations before and during Hitler's regime. Stern examines the way in which Germans have dealt with their nation's defeat, and analyses the conflicts over the interpretations of Germany's past that persist to this day. At once historical and personal, provocative and accessible, this book illuminates the issues that made Germany's and Europe's past and present so important in a tumultuous century of creativity and violence.
