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Med udgangspunkt i øjenvidner skildrer forfatteren det halve år, der fulgte efter tyskernes og japanernes kapitulation i 1945. Det var en tid med hævn, sortbørshandel, krigsdomstole og millionvis af fremmede soldater.
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A Klee drawing named "Angelus Novus" shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contempating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we preceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe that keeps piling ruin upon ruin and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress. - Walter Benjamin - Ninth Thesis on Philosophy of History
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To my father, S.L. Buruma, and to Brian Urquhart
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When Allied troops in Germany liberated millions of prisoners of Hitler's fallen Reich - in concentration camps, slave labor camps, prisoner of war camps - they expected to find them docile, suitably grateful, and happy to cooperate in any way they could with their liberators.
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But that is no reason not to pay tribute to the men and women who were alive in 1945, to their hardships, and to their hopes and aspirations, even though many of these would turn to ash, as everything eventually does.
Med udgangspunkt i øjenvidner skildrer forfatteren det halve år, der fulgte efter tyskernes og japanernes kapitulation i 1945. Det var en tid med hævn, sortbørshandel, krigsdomstole og millionvis af fremmede soldater.
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