The Question of German Guilt Karl Jaspers, S.J. Joseph W. Koterski
Publisher: Fordham University Press

For the future lives of Soviet soldiers withdrawing from Germany, or raising the question of relative guilt and atonement in God's Cell – A Women's Prison (Gotteszell - Ein Frauengefaengnis, which premiered in the Berlinale Forum in 2001). Karl Jaspers, The Question of German Guilt (New York: Capricorn Books, 1961; reprint, New York: Dial Press, 1947). Jaspers presents four contrastive archetypes of guilt. Bruno Ganz, who plays the professor, actually includes Karl Jaspers' The Question of German Guilt as required reading for his young law students, including Michael Berg, Hanna's lover. I will comment more fully after i've fully read your piece. Shortly after the Nazi government fell, a philosophy professor at Heidelberg University lectured on a subject that burned the consciousness and conscience of thinking Germans. In the ensuing debate, published below, political, legal and economic experts took up Habermas' criticisms, addressing in particular the question of the role of the German government in policies leading to what is being seen as the European They had to cope with Nazism, the Second World War, expulsion, captivity, moral ruin, individual guilt for crimes Germany had been involved in, then the division of Germany, the threat of nuclear destruction, and so on. New York: Capricorn Books, 1947. This interesting paper published just after the war is quite fascinating in its insights into the question of German guilt. After the war he resumed his teaching position, and in his work The Question of German Guilt he unabashedly examined the culpability of Germany as a whole in the atrocities of Hitler's Third Reich. 3 Comments to “German Guilt”. In the years after the Nazi government fell, a philosophy professor at Hindenberg University lectured on a subject which burned the consciousness and conscience of thinking Germans. After the Second World War, the philosopher Karl Jaspers wrote a book on the question of German guilt, in which he distinguished four different types of guilt: criminal, political, moral and metaphysical. Christian Buss, a culture editor for the magazine Spiegel, wrote in a review of the drama that while the question of Germans' collective guilt had been resolved, the role of individuals remained unclear. Instead of simplifying the question of German guilt, The Reader presents a narrative nearly as problematic as its subject matter. Sam Inayat-Chisti says: April 7, 2013 at 12:22 pm. "[H]ow can relatives think clearly and logically about the moral culpability of someone they love, without interrogating that love itself?" asks Karina Longworth in the Voice.