Brin is a noted publisher-editor of a series of Jewish newspapers in California. He brings his blunt, hard-hitting newspaper style to this book of interviews of German figures and their thoughts and feelings on the Holocaust. He interviews a cross section of the contemporary German intelligentsia: professors, publishers, government notables. They speak on the forces that brought Hitler to power and the growing identification of the German people with a monster. The continuing culpability and guilt of the Germans are also explored. Unfortunately, there are no new insights. A more fruitful approach can be found in Peter Sichrovsky's Born Guilty: Children of Nazi Families ( LJ 1/88), a best seller in Germany and an essential book on the topic of contemporary Germans looking back on their history. This is an optional purchase.-- Paul Kaplan, Dakota Cty. Lib., Eagan, Minn.
