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The Question of German Guilt Karl Jaspers, S.J. Joseph W. Koterski
Publisher: Fordham University Press

Instead of simplifying the question of German guilt, The Reader presents a narrative nearly as problematic as its subject matter. As you know, I've been following the Bearer Bonds Scandals, and the German gold audit story, for some time on this website, and many of you are. Identifying passivity before human tragedy as complicity, Jaspers coined the phrase 'metaphysical guilt': as fellow humans, we are obligated to intervene on behalf of others whatever the risk. That year a short book was published, Die schuldfrage : ein beitrag zur deutschen frage, The question of guilt: a contribution to the german question, which is usually rendered, The Question of German Guilt. Just a year after Churchill's speech, German philosopher Karl Jaspers published The Question of German Guilt, in which he called for the necessity to remember. He said this after Second World War. Insisted at the end of the second world war that “We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another despite our extraordinary differences” (The Question of German Guilt). He was German philosopher, himself prosecuted by Nazis. Cover for Slovenian edition of Karl Jaspers' The Question of German Guilt. Joshua and I have been discussing, in gruesome detail, the question of German collective guilt for the crimes and horrors of World War II. Otherwise rational and decent people will, one by one, genuflect and sign onto the stupid clichés and tiresome accusations that question your character, integrity and even sanity. These are using Germandom policy to make property claims or even openly put into question German guilt for the Second World War. Originally got onto after reading Guilt By Association by Jeff Gates.