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The Question of German Guilt Karl Jaspers, S.J. Joseph W. Koterski
Publisher: Fordham University Press

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 . He said this after Second World War. "[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. He was German philosopher, himself prosecuted by Nazis. Karl Jaspers, The Question of German Guilt (New York: Capricorn Books, 1961; reprint, New York: Dial Press, 1947). 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. Unfortunately they are the wrong questions. €�I, who cannot act otherwise than as an individual, am morally responsible for all my deeds, including the execution of political and military orders” – this was moral guilt as set forth in Jaspers' work, 'The Question of German Guilt'. Originally got onto after reading Guilt By Association by Jeff Gates. 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. 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. They will ask whether the notion of collective guilt is just. There is the little matter of World War I (for which I concede the question of German war guilt is far more debatable). "Bernhard Schlink is among the most important German authors since unification," Crockett explained. In English, you will find this book titled The Question Of German Guilt, but in truth, it is not that. 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. Dr Banaji evoked Karl Jaspers – a German philosopher – who had, in the aftermath of the Second World War, talked and written about the notion of collective guilt on the part of the German people for the atrocities of the Nazi Regime. The panelists will address the question of Germany's guilt for the war and the holocaust. Instead of simplifying the question of German guilt, The Reader presents a narrative nearly as problematic as its subject matter. At the end of World War Two, Karl Jaspers gave a lecture which came to be published as The Question Of Guilt. 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).