Жеральдин Шварц0.0 Dans la ville allemande de Mannheim, d’où est originaire son père, Géraldine Schwarz découvre que son grand-père Karl Schwarz a acheté à bas prix en 1938 une entreprise à des juifs, les Löbmann, qui périrent à Auschwitz. Après la guerre, confronté à un héritier qui réclame réparation, Karl Schwarz plonge dans le déni de ses responsabilités de Mitläufer, ceux qui comme la majorité du peuple allemand ont « marché avec le courant ».
C’est le point de départ d’une enquête passionnante au fil de trois générations sur les traces du travail de mémoire qui permit aux Allemands de passer d’une dictature à une démocratie. La rencontre de son père avec sa mère, fille d’un gendarme sous Vichy, est l’occasion pour l’auteure d’aborder les failles mémorielles en France dans lesquelles s’est engouffrée l’extrême droite. En élargissant son enquête à d’autres pays, Géraldine Schwarz montre que cette amnésie menace le consensus moral en Europe.
Пал Лендвай0.0 Through a masterly and cynical manipulation of ethnic nationalism, and deep-rooted corruption, Prime Minister Orbán has exploited successive electoral victories to build a closely knit and super-rich oligarchy. More than any other EU leader, he wields undisputed power over his people.
Orbán’s ambitions are far-reaching. Hailed by governments and far-right politicians as the champion of a new anti-Brussels nationalism, his ruthless crackdown on refugees, his open break with normative values and his undisguised admiration for Presidents Putin and Trump pose a formidable challenge to the survival of liberal democracy in a divided Europe.
Mining exclusive documents and interviews, celebrated journalist Paul Lendvai sketches the extraordinary rise of Orbán, an erstwhile anti-communist rebel turned populist autocrat. His compelling portrait reveals a man with unfettered power.
Philippe Sands4.5 A profound and profoundly important book—a moving personal detective story, an uncovering of secret pasts, and a book that explores the creation and development of world-changing legal concepts that came about as a result of the unprecedented atrocities of Hitler’s Third Reich.
East West Street looks at the personal and intellectual evolution of the two men who simultaneously originated the ideas of “genocide” and “crimes against humanity,” both of whom, not knowing the other, studied at the same university with the same professors, in a city little known today that was a major cultural center of Europe, “the little Paris of Ukraine,” a city variously called Lemberg, Lwów, Lvov, or Lviv. It is also a spellbinding family memoir, as the author traces the mysterious story of his grandfather, as he maneuvered through Europe in the face of Nazi atrocities.
East West Street is a book that changes the way we look at the world, at our understanding of history and how civilization has tried to cope with mass murder.
