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THE PAST RINGS OUT CLEARLYGERMANY'S MANY PLEASURES TINGED WITH DARK HISTORY

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20040711
Author:Steve Dowden

Sturdy and unbending are the library shelves that hold books about German warfare, politics, and history. It takes a good deal of shelf space just to accommodate the biographies of Hitler and his dark accomplices to say nothing of Luther, Bach,

These luminaries share a common language and national origin, a place that must surely have left its stamp on them. Hitler was emphatically German, but so were Kant and Heine. So were Karl Marx, W. G. Sebald, even Hermann Hesse and Claudia Schiffer.

If this is so, where are the books by contemporary traveler writers? Since the Second World War, an ...

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