Journey through a haunted land
Subtitle: the new Germany
By: Translated by Michael Roloff
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; und
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Description and travel
Description: Twenty-two ordinary Germans, among them a doctor, a druggist, an accountant, a small businessman, and a dentist, have been accused of Nazi mass murders and experts from a Frankfurt court in the year 1965 have come to Auschwitz, Poland to verify the testimony of the accused. From this starting point Amos Elon, a young Israeli journalist, goes on to crisscross Germany. He describes Cologne, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, the new press lords, the new industrialists, the new universities, the new politics of Bonn, the new establishment, and the "still, small voices" of protest of such writers and intellectuals as Gunther Grass, Henrich Boll, Alexander Kluge, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and Ingeborg Bachmann.
Notes: Translation of In einem heimgesuchten Land.