Voyage Through the Twentieth Century

The account of the authors life, spent between Europe and America, is at the same time an account of his generation, one that came of age between the two World Wars. Recalling not only circumstances of his own situation but that of his friends, the author shows how this generation faced a reality that seemed fragmented, and in their shared thirst for knowledge and commitment to ideas they searched for cohesiveness among the glittering, holistic ideologies and movements of the twenties and thirties. The authors scholarly work on the German Resistance to Hitler revealed to him those who maintained dignity and courage in times of peril and despair, which became for him a lifes pursuit. This work is unique in its thorough inclusion of the postwar decades and its perspective from a historian eager to rescue the other Germanythe Germany of the righteous rather than the Holocaust murderers.