Collective Guilt: How Germans Lived After the War

Many scientists left Germany with the arrival of the "brown plague". They cursed and forgot the country that literally threw them into the dustbin of history, but not Karl Jaspers, who decided to go through this test together with his people. He cursed Germany in 1945. In 1937, he was shamefully stripped of his professorship for sympathizing with the Jews, and then his former colleagues began to hound the professor. The scientist did not want to leave the country even then. For eight long years, he wrote "for the drawer" and lived under the daily threat of arrest. In 1945, everything changed, the shackles of fascism fell. Jaspers thought that now everyone who collaborated with the regime would go to the dustbin of history, where he spent eight long years, but when he came to the university, he met the same people who organized the hounding. It seemed that everyone had forgotten the past. The scientist could not survive this disgrace, he cursed Germany and left the country. He never set foot on German soil again, and the result of his disappointment was the philosopher's main work: "The Question of Guilt", in this essay he first substantiated and formulated the concept of "collective guilt". This work became the beginning of a large process of understanding the phenomenon of fascism, it was this work, as well as a number of essays and interviews by Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, who tried to understand the question of guilt from the standpoint of analytical psychology, that made up this book.