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The French political philosopher Raymond Aron once observed that the twentieth century "could have been Germany's century." In 1900, the country was Europe's preeminent power, its material strength and strident militaristic ethos apparently balanced by a vital culture and extraordinary scientific achievement. It was poised to achieve greatness. In Einstein's German World, the eminent historian Fritz Stern explores the ambiguous promise of Germany before Hitler, as well as its horrifying decline into moral nihilism under Nazi rule, and aspects of its remarkable recovery since World...

»Ein Mann mit faszinierender Darstellungskraft« Helmut Schmidt

Kulturpessimismus äußert sich durch grundlegende Skepsis und Misstrauen gegenüber gegenwärtigen Tendenzen und zukünftigen Entwicklungen. In seinem wegweisenden, »klassischen Buch« (Karl Dietrich Bracher) aus dem Jahr 1961 beschreibt Fritz Stern am Beispiel früher ideologischer Vorbereiter des Dritten Reiches den Kulturpessimismus auch als gesamteuropäisches Phänomen. Zugleich zeigt Fritz Stern uns heute die Gefährdungen auf, die den modernen, liberalen und demokratisch verfaßten...

The "German question" haunts the modern world: How could so civilized a nation be responsible for the greatest horror in Western history? In this unusual fusion of personal memoir and history, the celebrated scholar Fritz Stern refracts the question through the prism of his own life. Born in the Weimar Republic, exposed to five years of National Socialism before being forced into exile in 1938 in America, he became a world-renowned historian whose work opened new perspectives on the German past.

Stern brings to life the five Germanys he has experienced: Weimar, the Third Reich,...