The question of guilt. On the political responsibility of Germany. Preface N. Epple. Yaspers K.

The treatise of the largest thinker of the 20th century, the German philosopher, psychologist and psychiatrist Karl Yaspers, written by him after the defeat of German fascism, during the days of the Nuremberg process over Nazi criminals. At that time, defeated Germany was in the ruins, and society was in confusion and the deepest depression. The German people faced the task of rebuilding themselves, developing a new national identity - "to melt, revive, discard everything pernicious." Jaspers raises a painful question of whether all Germans are responsible for the crimes of the Nazi regime, and for the first time distinguishes between four types of guilt: legal, political, moral and metaphysical. The preface to the book was written by Nikolai Epple - a researcher of historical memory, laureate of the Enlightener Prize. The treatise is published in the classic translation of Solomon Apta.