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This 4 page paper looks at German guilt and posits that it was good as a national dialectic as Jaspers predicted. The debates surrounding his metaphysical hypothesis led to Germany's purification. Bibliography list 8 sources.
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Most of the German people alive during World War II did not know of or turned away from the atrocities of the Holocaust that came in
the aftermath of Reichskristallnacht, Hitlers 1938 call to the German people for the annihilation of all Jews. Their silence and obedience to the Nazi regime responsible for so much human
suffering has resulted in German guilt and a sense of national responsibility to make up for those atrocities. This is a guilt that is passed on from generation to generation
so that children who werent yet conceived during the war continue to experience German guilt over Hitlers crimes. This same guilt is commemorated and perpetrated in annual celebrations within Germany,
where ecclesiastics continue to call for a shared responsibility for this guilt. While unhealthy psychologically, national German guilt was responsible for the transformation into a democratic society. This society tore
down the Berlin wall and stands today as an example to the world. Its guilt served it well. Discussion
When Jaspers essay The Question of German Guilt was released, it spurred a great deal of discussion about what German guilt was and what it
was not, and what the purpose of it was. This argument continues today. Jaspers said German guilt served a metaphysical purpose, one that would purify the nation and make it
whole again. Many critics scoffed at him, some of them Germans who either lived through the war years or left the country because they were being pursued by the Nazis.
Turns out, the debates he evoked accomplished exactly what he said they would. Two of his biggest critics were Blucher and Blumenfeld, each
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