Abstract
Learning from the Germans. Race and the Memory of Evil examines German efforts to atone for Nazi atrocities and identifies lessons on how the United States might come to terms with its legacy of slavery and racism. Divided into three parts (German lessons, Southern discomfort, and Setting things straight), the book brings together historical and philosophical analysis; interviews with politicians, activists, and contemporary witnesses in Germany and the United States; and Neiman’s own first-person observations as a white woman growing up in the South and a Jewish woman who has lived for almost three decades in Berlin.
Highlights
In June 2020 a group of people of all ages, mostly white, demonstrated in town protesting about the death of George Floyd, the African American man murdered by police during an arrest in May 2020
Race and the Memory of Evil examines German efforts to atone for Nazi atrocities and identifies lessons on how the United States might come to terms with its legacy of slavery and racism
The basic tenet of the text is that Germany did a good job coming to terms with its Nazi past, Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung as it called in German, “working through the past”, more in Eastern Germany than in the Federal Republic, and that the United States could learn a lesson or two about managing the memory of slavery and the American Civil War
Summary
In June 2020 a group of people of all ages, mostly white, demonstrated in town protesting about the death of George Floyd, the African American man murdered by police during an arrest in May 2020. Race and the Memory of Evil examines German efforts to atone for Nazi atrocities and identifies lessons on how the United States might come to terms with its legacy of slavery and racism.
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