Krauts 42 (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing) - Bill Buford
KORTE INHOUD
When foreigners' hostels were being burned in Rostock by young neo-Nazi thugs, who were the thousands of middle-aged, middle class Germans standing by, shouting encouragement? Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this book looks into the ugly face of nationalism in Germany.
In three years, our vocabulary has changed. Then we used words like 'a divided Germany'. There was a 'Berlin Wall', a 'Cold War'. There were phrases: 'Evil Empire', 'the Communist threat'. There was always 'political asylum': 'dissidents' were welcomed. But what are our key words now? the New Germany the Extreme Right neo-Nazi Asylum seeker Hostel Ausländer Raus! Foreigners out! Rostock. Who, even nine months ago, had heard of Rostock? Mölln, and the three murdered Turks, including the ten-year-old Yeliz Arslan. What is it about the German people that produces a nation so - what? So ugly. So dangerous. So predictable. In the most comprehensive investigation of its kind, this special issue of Granta sets out to find the uncomfo...
In three years, our vocabulary has changed. Then we used words like 'a divided Germany'. There was a 'Berlin Wall', a 'Cold War'. There were phrases: 'Evil Empire', 'the Communist threat'. There was always 'political asylum': 'dissidents' were welcomed. But what are our key words now? the New Germany the Extreme Right neo-Nazi Asylum seeker Hostel Ausländer Raus! Foreigners out! Rostock. Who, even nine months ago, had heard of Rostock? Mölln, and the three murdered Turks, including the ten-year-old Yeliz Arslan. What is it about the German people that produces a nation so - what? So ugly. So dangerous. So predictable. In the most comprehensive investigation of its kind, this special issue of Granta sets out to find the uncomfo...
