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Thus it is understandable that Israel is inordinately interested in Germany, periodically dispatching journalists to scour the land for insights. What is more surprising is that an Israeli newspaperman has produced an important analysis of both East and West Germany. Amos Elon, 40, foreign correspondent for the Tel Aviv newspaper Ha'aretz, claims no objectivity; he begins his tour in 1965 at Auschwitz in Poland, clearly announcing that he carries 6,000,000 cinder chips on his shoulders. But prejudice soon gives way to perception, and recrimination to compassion...
Horatio at the Wall. Many of Elon's observations are familiar enough. He reviews the industrial resurgence of West Germany. One reads again of the neo-Nazi lunatic fringe, but Elon suggests that a vigilant press and growing democratic values keep the extreme rightists cornered. And there are also the usual set pieces: the Horatian discourse before the Berlin Wall, the discovery of the Germans' compulsive need to be loved, the bloody reappearance of Schmisse (dueling scars) on the Nordic faces of West German Korporationen youth...
...main theme of Elon's book is the ambiance of "moral schizophrenia" regarding the guilt for Germany's past. In West Germany it is always "they," the Hitler government, who committed the crimes; in East Germany it is always "they," the present West German government, who are assigned the guilt...
Only the intellectuals, artists and the press, Elon believes, seem to be aware of the magnitude of the moral problem confronting Germany. Few others express concern that in West Germany former Nazis still occupy many government posts and that in East Germany former Nazis still hold responsible positions in the army. Elon concedes that no people can go on feeling guilty forever; still, he is pained at the philistinism he finds among West German politicians, who seem determined to blank out the past. But he admires the attitude expressed by Catholic Writer Heinrich Boll (The Clown). "The sum of suffering...
Drawing starts with a round chunk or disk of steel which is cupped, then elon gated by a series of punches and dies which work the metal into cylindrical shape. The open end is trimmed or tapered, the base machined to shape. Between draws, which harden the steel, the cartridge case must be annealed. To protect it from corrosion and sparking it must also be varnish-sprayed and baked...