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
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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. Should I compare my fear to the collective guilt of generations growing up on the other side, German children never wanting to question their parents or grandparents about their past? "[H]ow can relatives think clearly and logically about the moral culpability of someone they love, without interrogating that love itself?" asks Karina Longworth in the Voice. 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. These are using Germandom policy to make property claims or even openly put into question German guilt for the Second World War. He said this after Second World War. He was German philosopher, himself prosecuted by Nazis. 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. Karl Jaspers, The Question of German Guilt (New York: Capricorn Books, 1961; reprint, New York: Dial Press, 1947). In place of the long postwar period of economic growth in Germany, known as the Wirtschaftswunder, which saw some 4.8 million foreign workers attracted to the country, the situation now is that nearly 2 million German workers seek . Identifying passivity before human tragedy as complicity, Jaspers coined the phrase 'metaphysical guilt': as fellow humans, we are obligated to intervene on behalf of others whatever the risk. 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?". 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. Found in the chapter “The German Standard of Armament in the Year 1939″ in Udo Walendy, Truth for Germany: The Guilt Question of the Second World War (VIotho/Weser: Verlag für Volkstum und Zeitgeschichtsforschung, 1981).