A Backward Look: Germans Remember - Softcover

A Backward Look deals with the days of Hitler, seeing that era now through the eyes of Germans who as Nazi adolescents were drafted into anti-aircraft units to shoot down Allied bombers. Absorbingly, the book's travels in time reveal the multifaceted ways in which Germans remember the nefarious works of their fallen dictatorship - those Germans, that is, who are prepared to remember it at all, for many now live their days in a fog when it comes to looking back on the events that took place in the Fatherland. But the author does succeed in finding Germans willing to face the past. A Backward Look makes no pretense at being a definitive study of the Third Reich. It is, rather, an impressionistic odyssey that, in the hands of Daniel Lang, builds powerfully into an effigy on history and its vulnerability to the inroads of time.