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

The Question of German Guilt



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Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823220680, 9780823220687


Originally got onto after reading Guilt By Association by Jeff Gates. 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. 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. 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. THE QUESTION OF GERMAN GUILT A brief view by *Anton Legerer German Law Journal No. There is the little matter of World War I (for which I concede the question of German war guilt is far more debatable). 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. 259-60: Karl Jaspers, in The Question of German Guilt, argued that people should be collectively held responsible for the way they are governed. Shortly after the Nazi government fell, a philosophy professor at Heidelberg University lectured on a subject that burned the consciousness and conscience of thinking Germans. Jaspers, Karl (2000): The Question of German Guilt. 2 In 1946, at the time of the trials of the Nazi élite, the philosopher Karl Jaspers published his booklet Die. 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. As you know, I've been following the Bearer Bonds Scandals, and the German gold audit story, for some time on this website, and many of you are. From Ian Buruma, The Wages of Guilt, pp. New York: Fordham University Press Talking to each other is difficult in Germany today, but the more important for that reason. In pondering these questions, I am reminded of Karl Jaspers and his work, The Question of German Guilt, written after the Holocaust, in which he argues that there are 4 layers of guilt.