The Presence of the Past

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Bernhard Schlink, a lawyer by training who took up fiction writing and is best known for his best-selling novel The Reader (currently a film starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes) discusses his generation of Germans - those born at the tail end of [...]World War II or in the immediate postwar years - and how they approached the memory and lessons of the Third Reich and the Holocaust.

Hosted by Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University on February 2, 2009.
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