Learning from the Germans

By Susan Neiman,

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'An ambitious and engrossing investigation of the moral legacies which stubbornly refuse to pass' Brendan Simms

As the western world struggles with its legacies of racism and colonialism, what can we learn from the past in order to move forward?

Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed…

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1 author picked Learning from the Germans as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Historical memory – especially the way we remember evil deeds or troubling eras from the past – is very important in our present society, and this is one of the finest books about the process of making and changing historical memory. I recommend it to to readers interested in Germany, the Holocaust, or the US Civil War.

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