Editorial Pushkin Press
Fecha de edición abril 2021 · Edición nº 1
Idioma inglés
EAN 9781782275374
320 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa blanda
Dimensiones 129 mm x 198 mm
During the war, Geraldine Schwarz's grandparents were neither heroes nor villains - they just followed the current. Afterwards they wanted to forget, to bury it all under the wreckage of the Third Reich. But decades later, delving through the basement of their apartment building, Geraldine discovers that her grandfather Karl profited from the forced 'Aryanisation' of Jewish businesses - and so she is compelled to investigate her ancestors' past.
On her mother's side, she delves into the role of her French grandfather, a policeman during the Vichy regime. How guilty were they? Combining generations of family stories with the history of Europe's post-war reckoning, Geraldine asks: how did Germans transform their collective guilt into democratic responsibility? And, given rising populism in Europe today, how can we ensure we learn from history?
Géraldine Schwarz (Estrasburgo, 1974) es una periodista y realizadora francoalemana. Colabora con diversos medios internacionales y en la actualidad realiza una investigación en los archivos de los servicios secretos federales de Alemania.
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