The Question of German Guilt

¹ Among the many recent volumes that have been reconsidering the question, an especially interesting one is Moral Responsibility in the Holocaust: A Study in the Ethics of Character by David H. Jones (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999) and Ervin Staub, The Root of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989). See also the essay by Amitai Etzioni, “Kris-tallnacht Remembered” in Commonweal (February 12, 1999): 12-15.