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Excerpt from Those Who Forget by Géraldine Schwarz, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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Those Who Forget

My Family's Story in Nazi Europe – A Memoir, A History, A Warning

by Géraldine Schwarz

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Those Who Forget by Géraldine Schwarz
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    Sep 2020, 320 pages

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    Sep 2022, 352 pages

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At the end of the 1940s, the Allies withdrew from the vast project of denazification. They lacked hindsight and didn't understand all the complexities of the Nazi regime, but above all, outside forces could not do this work for the Germans. It was up to them to change their mentality and take charge of their own democratic fate. There was reason to be pessimistic.

Excerpted from Those Who Forget by Géraldine Schwarz. Copyright © 2020 by Géraldine Schwarz. Excerpted by permission of Scribner. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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