Reluctant Meister

STEPHEN GREEN was for most of his career an international banker. From 2011 to 2013 he was Minister for Trade and Investment in the British Government. He now has a range of international trade, on financial and professional services and on child poverty and development programmes. He chairs the Natural History Museum of London and is an ordained priest in the Church of England. Stephen is the author of Good Value: Money, Morality and on an Uncertain World, The European Identity: Historical and Cultural Realities we cannot Deny, Brexit and the British: Who are we now? and co-authored Unwritten Rule: How to Fix the British Constitution.

‘For Stephen Green, Germany’s greatest achievement has been in coming to terms with its history ‘‘The process of confrontation has been neither easy nor quick,’’ he says. ‘‘There are many who have gone to their graves without being honest to themselves about their sins of omission and commission. But for all its imperfections, this atonement has been more thoroughgoing than in most other countries where human evil has been more rampant within living memory.’’ It would be hard to put it better.’

• Preface // ixIntroduction // xiii1. Springtime in Berlin // 12. Tears for my Country // 63. That Cursed Duty // 484. The Awakening of Germania // 745. Dem Deutschen Volke // 1056. Memories, Dreams and Nightmares // 1367. The Pact with the Devil // 1658. Remnants, Renewal, Redemption, Reconciliation // 1919. Confronting the Ghosts of Germany Past // 22410. The Reluctant Leader of the New Europe // 26511. Transfiguration and Apotheosis? // 299Notes // 303Selected Bibliography // 307Index // 315