"Among the obstacles on the road to 'Europe,' the horrors of memories connected with the name of Hitler are of decisive importance. And Hitler wasn't British and he wasn't French, he was a German."
Such words as these voiced by Germany's influential Protestant weekly Christ und Welt are not often heard in Germany, where the tendency is to ignore so unpleasant a subject, or to dismiss it by saying, "The others weren't any better." Disturbed by the talk of the guilt of "others," Christ und Welt (circ. 61,000) decided it was high time to ask whether postwar Germany "has nothing...
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