".... one woman who is a translator and teacher of German-language literature – a woman who lived in Germany for ten years and has immersed herself in the German culture for twenty years said that among the people in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, and among Holocaust survivors in the United States, she hears the parallels between Bush and Hitler and the similarities between the United States now and Germany in the 1930’s all the time. ”She writes:”
“It's almost like this knowledge is a given--a basic assumption shared by everyone I know who is intimately familiar with the Nazi era (that is, 90% of my professional colleagues, clients, collaborators, etc.). It is like the unspoken known. Unspoken, and unspeakable…
In my department, at conferences I attend (here and in German-speaking countries), everywhere in Germanic Studies related professions, this parallel
is so evident as to be widely accepted as valid, but it cannot be articulated…because seriously suggesting anything of the kind—in scholarship, or the classroom, in casual conversation…is to commit professional suicide…” "
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