Susan Neiman directs Berlin’s Einstein Forum, a public think tank for the state of Brandenburg. She has lived in Berlin for most of her adult life but was born and raised in the southern United States. For this book, she spent three years interviewing people in both Germany and the United States.
In her book, Learning from the Germans, she asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting past evils, the concept of Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung, “working off the past”, and how communities can come together to remember and move forward.
Recorded April 18, 2021
Germanic-American Institute
