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Article: The German way.(A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People)(Book Review)
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- National Review
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- April 5, 2004
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A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People, by Steven Ozment (HarperCollins, 416 pp., $26.95)
GERMANS have contributed much more than their fair share to civilization but also to human misery. Gifted as so many individual Germans may have been, collectively they have provided a cautionary tale of how not to organize a society, a nation, and a state. Time and again, they have destroyed their lands and negated their achievements; time and again, some strong man has come to rescue them, only to leave worse carnage and numberless dead. Adolf Hitler, latest of the would-be rescuers, will cast his shadow over humanity for as long as memory lasts: The poet ...