Antony Beevor - It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second W...

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It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral choices.

Antony Beevor

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Es ist wichtig, die anhaltende, verwirrte Faszination mit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zu verstehen. Für die meisten von uns ist die große unausgesprochene Frage, wie wir uns angesichts der Gefahr und wenn wir gezwungen waren, wichtige moralische Entscheidungen zu treffen, benommen hätten.

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