Publisher's Synopsis
Raymond Aron once observed that the twentieth century 'could have been Germany's century'. In EINSTEIN'S GERMAN WORLD, the eminent historian Fritz Stern explores the ambiguous promise of Germany before Hitler, its horrifying decline into moral nihilism under Nazi rule, and aspects of its remarkable recovery since the Second World War. He does so by gracefully blending history and biography in a sequence of finely drawn studies of Germany's great scientists and politicians and through subtle studies of European history writing in a century whose monstrous events have all but dwarfed our efforts to understand.
