The Germans Reappraise the War

EVERY fatal political disease brings its literary post-mortem; and if this post-mortem is not so much an examination of cause as a dispute about responsibility--a competition in disclaimer by doctors, nurses, relatives and the chambermaid--this does not make it, to the historian, less interesting. It may not establish historical truth, but it adds to historical evidence--evidence not of fact, but of motive, character and political climate. It is now seven years since the defeat of Germany, the overthrow of Nazism, the death of Hitler. In those seven years thousands of documents have come to light which can illustrate the history