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




The Question of German Guilt book download Download The Question of German Guilt Browse the world's largest eBookstore and start reading today on the web, tablet, phone, or ereader. Cover for Slovenian edition of Karl Jaspers' The Question of German Guilt. 259-60: Karl Jaspers, in The Question of German Guilt, argued that people should be collectively held responsible for the way they are governed. 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. To unquestioningly accept the innocence of the Jews in their loss of civil rights in Germany, and in their deportation and eventual internment in concentration camps seems naive. 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. In this poll, 1000 representatively chosen Germans should answer the question, who was guilty for the German-Hungarian war of 1880. Instead of simplifying the question of German guilt, The Reader presents a narrative nearly as problematic as its subject matter. The results of this poll are as follows:”. From Ian Buruma, The Wages of Guilt, pp. The minefield scene is, in fact, just one of many horrific acts the two brothers perpetrate over the course of the miniseries, a sweeping television event that has galvanized a new discussion about Germany's war guilt. 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. One of by a documentary program in which real German veterans discussed their experiences during the war, and viewers were referred to a web page where they could share their own memories or answer questions like "What would you have done?".