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

The Question of German Guilt


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The Question of German Guilt Karl Jaspers, S.J. Joseph W. Koterski
Publisher: Fordham University Press




2 In 1946, at the time of the trials of the Nazi élite, the philosopher Karl Jaspers published his booklet Die. Muslim organizations routinely issue such statements when Muslims commit acts of terror, but the question remains whether such statements are enough. How much has President Obama himself told to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court. These are using Germandom policy to make property claims or even openly put into question German guilt for the Second World War. In the years after the Nazi government fell, a philosophy professor at Hindenberg University lectured on a subject which burned the consciousness and conscience of thinking Germans. Cover for Slovenian edition of Karl Jaspers' The Question of German Guilt. This interesting paper published just after the war is quite fascinating in its insights into the question of German guilt. Jaspers, Karl "The Question of German Guilt"; Jay, Martin "The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950"; Jung, C.G. Karl Jaspers, The Question of German Guilt (New York: Capricorn Books, 1961; reprint, New York: Dial Press, 1947). While journalists and academics tend to separate questions of culture and identity from economics and foreign affairs, in Germany's case it's impossible to understand one without the other. Christian Buss, a culture editor for the magazine Spiegel, wrote in a review of the drama that while the question of Germans' collective guilt had been resolved, the role of individuals remained unclear. Just a year after Churchill's speech, German philosopher Karl Jaspers published The Question of German Guilt, in which he called for the necessity to remember. "Bernhard Schlink is among the most important German authors since unification," Crockett explained. Bruno Ganz, who plays the professor, actually includes Karl Jaspers' The Question of German Guilt as required reading for his young law students, including Michael Berg, Hanna's lover. The answer might not be that simple but it is an answer that is deserved by the American people, no matter how laborious it is to explain that answer clearly. That year a short book was published, Die schuldfrage : ein beitrag zur deutschen frage, The question of guilt: a contribution to the german question, which is usually rendered, The Question of German Guilt. THE QUESTION OF GERMAN GUILT A brief view by *Anton Legerer German Law Journal No. Insisted at the end of the second world war that “We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another despite our extraordinary differences” (The Question of German Guilt).