Mark Almond
Survivors’ Tales
On the Natural History of Destruction
By W G Sebald
Hamish Hamilton 205pp £16.99 order from our bookshop
IN THE YEARS that immediately followed the Second World War, West German society shrouded the Holocaust in silence. Nazi mass murder was the shadow which hung over the Federal Republic as it progressed fiom wartime ruin to economic miracle. But well before reunification in 1990, the media. universities and schools had undone the self-induced amnesia of the postwar generation with such blanket coverage of Nazi crimes that exposure to them became routine.
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