Gewalt und Politik. Studien zu Nationalsozialismus und totaler Herrschaft

Social and scholarly controversies characterized the decades in the German Federal Republic of processing its National Socialist history. Born in 1941, Gert Schäfer has always taken a clear stance in this process: as a German citizen, writer, scientist and academic, he strove all his life to make the point that “truly self-aware people, truly self-aware Germans, will remember the aberrations and crimes of their nation and of their people and will not wish to forget, nor mitigate or moderate them for the sake of our future.”
His analyses of the forms of political power go beyond dominant schools of thought, setting the standards for comprehending the political and historical distortions in Germany during the 20th century.
Compiled in this edition from essays between 1967 and 2003 as yet unpublished, his thinking against the tide sets out to stir further critical inquiry into our history.