The War in the Empty Air: Victims, Perpetrators, and Postwar Germans

"This book will provoke intellectually, ideologically, and
emotionally loaded responses in the U.S., Germany, and Israel. Barnouw's critique of
the 'enduringly narrow post-Holocaust perspective on German guilt and the ensuing
fixation on German remorse' questions taboos that the political and cultural elites
in those three countries would rather leave alone.... [Barnouw] makes us understand
why the maintenance of a privileged memory of the Nazi period and World War II may
not survive much l...