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Discovered the Bernie Gunther novels of Phillip Kerr this summer. Wonderful noir stories, set in Pre-/wartime/post war Berlin and elsewhere. Why have these never been made into movies?
Coincidentally, there is a lively discussion here http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?66544-The-Nationalist-Myth-War-and-quot-Vintage-quot
about German war guilt. These novels, written by an English author, I think do a wonderful job explaining the mindset. Bernie Gunther was not a Party member or even an adherent to the dreadful racial/social tenets of the Nazis but his character, as he moves through the novels, has ample opportunity to limn the complexity of how his fellow Germans dealt with it all and he is not overly sympathetic but I think fair. One of the incidental rewards of these stories is to gain some better appreciation of what it may have been like to have 'been there'.
Coincidentally, there is a lively discussion here http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?66544-The-Nationalist-Myth-War-and-quot-Vintage-quot
about German war guilt. These novels, written by an English author, I think do a wonderful job explaining the mindset. Bernie Gunther was not a Party member or even an adherent to the dreadful racial/social tenets of the Nazis but his character, as he moves through the novels, has ample opportunity to limn the complexity of how his fellow Germans dealt with it all and he is not overly sympathetic but I think fair. One of the incidental rewards of these stories is to gain some better appreciation of what it may have been like to have 'been there'.
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