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...Germany the last years of the Second World War. The ringing name of Dresden has come to stand for all the horrors of this time. Sixty years later, the German-born writer W.G. Sebald ponders the long silence that followed the carnage, in a postwar Germany eager to forget.
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THE TOPIC is far from easy, and whoever reflects on the Nazi regime--on the industry of death set in motion by Hitler and his minions--finds it immensely difficult to picture German cities in ruins and the deaths of innocent civilians, or of civilians who at the very least could not wholly share in the guilt of the Nazis' murders. After all, as we either know or can guess, Dresden, Nuremberg, or Cologne had their share of democrats, believers, and opponents to the regime. But the most astounding element does not lie there, nor does it lie in the silence or the indifference...
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