Summary
The personal truth of a conscience engaged in scrupulous self-reckoning" is how the introduction describes this document, though confidence in Nossack's scrupulosity is not improved by what [Joel Agee] tells us about his personal life: "The poet told some fibs and half-truths about himself - a sterner judge would call them lies . . . One of that myth's ingredients was a legend according to which the Nazis imposed an edict denying him the right to publish." Ach so.
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Death and Glory
A new film humanises Hitler; Prince Harry wears a swastika to a party; a musical pokes fun at the Führer. There is always something we have to remember, writes GEORGE WALDEN, except the enormity of Nazi evil itself
Death and glory The End: Hamburg 1943 Hans Erich Nossack University of Chicago Press, 87pp, £14This is a strange book, disturbing in a way neither its author nor Joel Agee, ...See the full content of this document
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