Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Frank Trentmann, professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London, to discuss his latest book, Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942–2022. They chat about how a nation whose past has been marked by mass murder, a people who cheered Adolf Hitler, reinvented themselves, and by how much.
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Show Notes:
Literary Review: David Blackbourn – “A Mercedes in Every Garage”
https://literaryreview.co.uk/a-mercedes-in-every-garage
New York Review of Books: Timothy Garton Ash – “Big Germany, What Now?”
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/big-germany-what-now-timothy-garton-ash/
The New Statesman: Brendan Simms – “What it means to be German”
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2023/12/meaning-modern-germany-brenadan-simms
The Times: Oliver Moody – “Out of the Darkness by Frank Trentmann review — how Germans became good (and rather complacent)”
Times Literary Supplement: Ben Hutchinson – “New moral order”
The Wall Street Journal: Ian Brunskill – “‘Out of the Darkness’ Review: War Crimes and Remembrance”
The Washington Post: Bryn Stole – “An ambitious history of Germany interrogates the country’s moral makeover”