Publisher's Synopsis
How can we understand the underlying emotions that drive modern Germany? How should we now view the Germans? What do we file them under? What label do we put on them? With numerous highly representative examples from politics, the media, and individuals - this book puts the modern-day German psyche on the couch for analysis in a way that no other book I've come across does. It is well worth reading - and thinking about.
The book questions many assumptions about "the new Germany"
- Is there really one Germany, or such a thing as "a German mentality"?
- Is Germany a strong and stable democracy in the heart of Europe?
- Have "the Germans" really confronted their past?
- What stands behind the "German moral and historical responsibility toward Israel"?
