Snag Your Copy Verbrecher Und Andere Deutsche: Ein Bericht Aus Deutschland 1946 Composed By Willy Brandt Issued As Manuscript

Brandt had livedof hisyears as a German exile in Norway, Sweden and, for a short time, in Spain during the Civil War.
As a naturalized Norwegian citizen, it would not at all have been farfetched to see him take on a role with the Norwegian government either in the Foreign Ministry or in the newly formed United Nations.
He was seriously considering it himself, But even though Nazi Germany had revoked his German citizenship, he still felt himself, despite his love for his adopted country, a German.
So it was easy to understand why he would have jumped at an opportunity to file reports from the ruins of postwar Germany and the upcoming Nürnburg Trials for a Norwegian newspapercomplete with a Norwegian army uniform.
It would give him an opportunity to assess the situation in Germany and sort out his thoughts about his postwar life.


Written in Norwegian and only recently translated into German, its real fame lies in the deliberate mischaracterization of its title by FranzJosef Strauß and the Christian conservatives in the national elections of thes.
Rather than accurately translating it as Criminals and Other Germans, Brandts opponents smeared his patriotism by innuendo calling it Germans and Other Criminals, as if Brandt wanted to paint all Germans with the same brush.
Konrad Adenauer referred to him as “Willy Brandt, alias Frahm” implying that Brandt had something to hide by changing his name in his youthleaving out the fact that Brandt assumed the identity to escape detection by the Nazis.
Strauß dug deeper when he asked Brandt “What were you doing out there for twelve years” as he tried to make it referendum of the “patriotism” of Germans who remained in Germany during the Third Reich years a political virtue as compared to Brandts exile and opposing the Nazi regime.


As a work of journalistic history, it is interesting to observe Brandt's instincts about how the past and present must inform but not inhibit the future.
He understood that postwar Germany could not be imposed from above, “the democratic and peaceful existence must be shaped by inner forces.
” He lamented how the allies unconditional surrender policy prohibited contact with the German resistance, not because it was unlikely to be effective, but because it was “worth a chance.
” But he is never naive or unrealistic about the complexity of living in Nazi Germany, He notes howpolicemen were executed because they refused to make a Hitler loyalty oath and how just speaking out against Naziinstalled professors would lead to arrest.
He cites the executions of,French “hostages” during the occupation, As dispassionately as possible he separates the German people from Nazi policy without ever completely absolving the former for the latters crimes.


There may be better histories of the Nürnburg Trials, but this one is still very good.
It gives us an insight to Brandts understanding of history, Germanys postwar existence, and how his experiences shaped the man who was soon to become one of the worlds leadingth century diplomats and the father of the modern social democracy.
Distanziert geschrieben für ein Ausländisches Publikum nicht das SkandalBuch wie Brandt kritiker

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Willy Brandt born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm was a German politician, Chancellor of West Germany, and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany SPD.
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