Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction to the 2000 Edition; "Ladies and Gentlemen"; Introduction; Scheme of Distinctions; The German Questions; Differentiation of German Guilt; Possible Excuses; Our Purification; Footnotes
Summary
Shortly after the Nazi government fell, a philosophy professor at Heidelberg University lectured on a subject that burned the consciousness and conscience of thinking Germans.?Are the German people guilty?? These lectures by Karl Jaspers, an outstanding European philosopher, attracted wide attention among German intellectuals and students; they seemed to offer a path to sanity and morality in a disordered world. Jaspers, a life-long liberal, attempted in this book to discuss rationally a problem that had thus far evoked only heat and fury. Neither an evasive apology nor a wholesome condemnati
