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JOURNEY THROUGH A HAUNTED LAND: THE NEW GERMANY, by Amos Elon. A searching and compassionate study of today's Germany by an Israeli journalist who never forgets that he could have been a victim...
JOURNEY THROUGH A HAUNTED LAND: THE NEW GERMANY, by Amos Elon. A searching and compassionate study of today's Germany by an Israeli journalist who never forgets that he could have been a victim...
JOURNEY THROUGH A HAUNTED LAND, by Amos Elon. An Israeli journalist visits the scenes of genocide and writes a thoughtful study of postwar Germany...
JOURNEY THROUGH A HAUNTED LAND, by Amos Elon. Following a long, thoughtful trip through Germany, an Israeli journalist writes of the "moral schizophrenia" and conflicting values that haunt the country a generation after the death camps...
East Germany looks different. In order to concentrate on industrial rebuilding, the Communists left much of their cities in rubble. Twenty years after the war, wrote Israeli Journalist Amos Elon in his Journey Through a Haunted Land, "when you are in East Germany, it appears as if the war were only yesterday." The countryside, with its villages, horse-drawn carts and unmechanized farms, looks as if the clock had been turned back 30 or 40 years. The highways are potholed and traffic ranges from light to nonexistent. The blue haze of soft-coal smoke seems to shroud the cities, adding...