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Neither the French Revolution nor the Napoleonic Wars, not even the American Civil War, has obsessed novelists as much as the Third Reich. There human nature hit rock bottom, and it has been an irresistible temptation to novelists to try to tell why. Twenty years after the event, there are more novels than ever on the Nazi era-as if crime of such magnitude takes years to digest...
...immediate postwar days, West Germans themselves were not much better off. The fierce competition between natives and "aliens" for jobs or even a roof created an explosive climate of mutual recrimination. It seemed as if the shaky new democracy, digging out of the wreckage of Hitler's Reich, could scarcely survive the human avalanche...
...Drum, by Günter Grass. A grotesque dwarfs-eye view of the Third Reich and its aftermath told by the most powerfully imaginative novelist to emerge in postwar Germany...
...Drum, by Gunter Grass. A grotesque dwarfs-eye view of the Third Reich and its aftermath told by the most powerfully imaginative novelist to emerge in postwar Germany...
...Drum, by Giinter Grass. A grotesque dwarfs-eye view of the Third Reich and its aftermath told by the most powerfully imaginative novelist to emerge in postwar Germany...