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The Question of German Guilt Karl Jaspers, S.J. Joseph W. Koterski
Publisher: Fordham University Press

There is the little matter of World War I (for which I concede the question of German war guilt is far more debatable). Christian Buss, a culture editor for the magazine Spiegel wrote in a review of the drama that while the question of Germans' collective guilt had been resolved, the role of individuals remained unclear. €�I, who cannot act otherwise than as an individual, am morally responsible for all my deeds, including the execution of political and military orders” – this was moral guilt as set forth in Jaspers' work, 'The Question of German Guilt'. Dr Banaji evoked Karl Jaspers – a German philosopher – who had, in the aftermath of the Second World War, talked and written about the notion of collective guilt on the part of the German people for the atrocities of the Nazi Regime. Shortly after the Nazi government fell, a philosophy professor at Heidelberg University lectured on a subject that burned the consciousness and conscience of thinking Germans. The question that is seriously being asked here is: Should I feel guilty about what was done by Germans under nazi rule? New York: Fordham University Press, 2000. It arose in its modern form as -- in the title of Karl Jaspers' book on the topic -- "The Question of German Guilt." Germany was not, at the time, in a position to pay reparations to anybody. At the end of World War Two, Karl Jaspers gave a lecture which came to be published as The Question Of Guilt. In English, you will find this book titled The Question Of German Guilt, but in truth, it is not that. Vladimira Dvorakova, Andelko Milardovic [eds.]. Lustration and Consolidation of Democracy and the Rule of Law in Central and Eastern Europe. Insisted at the end of the second world war that “We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another despite our extraordinary differences” (The Question of German Guilt).