A philosopher compares Germany’s reckoning with the Holocaust to America’s struggle to confront racism, slavery, and contested historical memory.
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A philosopher compares Germany’s reckoning with the Holocaust to America’s struggle to confront racism, slavery, and contested historical memory.
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In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdoings. Neiman is a white woman who came of age in the civil rights-era South and a Jewish woman who has spent much of her adult life in Berlin. Working from this unique perspective, she ...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content present
Violence & gore
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Discussions of Holocaust crimes, lynching, and wartime atrocities
Profanity
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No evidence found in available sources
Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Brief references including an East German dissident preacher
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Central focus on national guilt, reparations, monuments, and racial justice
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Central themes of Holocaust, slavery, lynching, and systemic racial cruelty
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