Tannhauser (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} spyinthehaus) wrote,@ 2009-03-12 23:36:00 |
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On the Nuremberg Trials - Rebecca West
The Allies reacted according to their histories. The French, many of whom had been in concentration camps, rested and read; no nation has endured more wars, or been more persistent in its creation of a culture, and it has been done this way. The British reconstituted an Indian hill station; anybody who wants to know what they were like in Nuremberg need only read the early works of Rudyard Kipling. In villas set among the Bavarian pines, amid German modernist furniture, each piece of which seemed to have an enormous behind, a triple feat of reconstruction was performed: people who were in Germany pretended that they were people in the jungle who were pretending they were in England.
The Allies reacted according to their histories. The French, many of whom had been in concentration camps, rested and read; no nation has endured more wars, or been more persistent in its creation of a culture, and it has been done this way. The British reconstituted an Indian hill station; anybody who wants to know what they were like in Nuremberg need only read the early works of Rudyard Kipling. In villas set among the Bavarian pines, amid German modernist furniture, each piece of which seemed to have an enormous behind, a triple feat of reconstruction was performed: people who were in Germany pretended that they were people in the jungle who were pretending they were in England.
