Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...document of the British Blue Book which places the war guilt on Germany is the British message to Germany on Aug. 28, three days before the invasion, saying that definite Polish consent to negotiate was at hand. That message, said the German Foreign Office, "was a sheer...
...patrol about to be annihilated. To him this is riot cowardice, but the common sense of disillusionment; to his companions it still seems better to die for an ideal than live without one. Afterwards, though still believing he was right, King is burdened with a sense of guilt. The play does not, however (after the fashion of Conrad's Lord Jim), trace out the psychological consequences of King's desertion; instead, it brings him into a world of gangsters where he is once again compelled to choose between common sense and heroic sacrifice...
Chapter 8: What Guilt!: Questioning of Elser began. "Examinations of him," reported Deutsche Dienst, "take no end of time. He ponders every word before he replies, and if one can observe him, one forgets what a vile animal he is. What guilt. What a horrible burden his conscience apparently is able to bear so lightly...
...Historians at least will scarcely be convinced that this is a struggle between demons and angels." The professor refused to place the guilt wholly on one side, observing that the origins of the National Socialist regime "were not unconnected with French policy and British policy in the period following...
...possible to indicate many contrasts and shades of difference among different nations, but to strike the balance of the whole is not given to human insight. The ultimate truth with respect to the character, the conscience, and the guilt of a people remains forever a secret; if only for the reason that its defects have another side, where they reappear as peculiarities or even as virtues. We must leave those who find a pleasure in passing sweeping censures on whole nations to do so as they like. The peoples of Europe can maltreat, but happily not judge, one another...