More Americans claim ancestry from Germany than from anyother nation. We speak a Germanic language, and from fairy talesto Freud, were surrounded by German influences. Yet America haslost touch with its German heritage. We simply cant fathom howthe land of Beethoven and Goethe could have been responsiblefor WW II and the Holocaust. In The German Puzzle the authorrecounts his own journey of rediscovery. Drawing on a uniquemix of personal and family experienceranging from schoolyardfisticuffs to the exuberance of the New Berlinhe offers us a freshperspective on the German world, and how it shaped America.