Susan Neiman: What America Can Learn From Germany About Facing Its Past
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It may be hard for many Americans to imagine, but there are striking parallels between post-Civil-War America and post-World-War-2 Germany. Our guest this time is an expert on those parallels, and wrote a deeply-researched, insightful, and important book about them. Philosopher Susan Neiman is the author of Learning From the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil.
She describes how Germans finally began what a process of vergangenheitsaufarbeitung, or \\u201cworking off the past.\\u201d It has helped Germany both to make atonement, and to build a better society. As America begins facing its own forgotten, buried, or rewritten past, we can learn a lot from this book and its author.
