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The Question of German Guilt Karl Jaspers, S.J. Joseph W. Koterski
Publisher: Fordham University Press

How much has President Obama himself told to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court. The answer might not be that simple but it is an answer that is deserved by the American people, no matter how laborious it is to explain that answer clearly. Identifying passivity before human tragedy as complicity, Jaspers coined the phrase 'metaphysical guilt': as fellow humans, we are obligated to intervene on behalf of others whatever the risk. There is the little matter of World War I (for which I concede the question of German war guilt is far more debatable). That year a short book was published, Die schuldfrage : ein beitrag zur deutschen frage, The question of guilt: a contribution to the german question, which is usually rendered, The Question of German Guilt. In pondering these questions, I am reminded of Karl Jaspers and his work, The Question of German Guilt, written after the Holocaust, in which he argues that there are 4 layers of guilt. He was German philosopher, himself prosecuted by Nazis. The minefield scene is, in fact, just one of many horrific acts the two brothers perpetrate over the course of the miniseries, a sweeping television event that has galvanized a new discussion about Germany's war guilt. Joshua and I have been discussing, in gruesome detail, the question of German collective guilt for the crimes and horrors of World War II. He said this after Second World War. This epic tale of a family and their rural life in a small German village is told against the changing backdrop of a country's turbulent history from 1919 to 1982. One of by a documentary program in which real German veterans discussed their experiences during the war, and viewers were referred to a web page where they could share their own memories or answer questions like "What would you have done?".