Himmelfarb, Gertrude. "Review of The German Catastrophe, by Friedrich Meinecke, and Journal in the Night, by Theodor Haecker." Commentary Magazine, September, 1950.

Excerpt:

One feature of such an ideological war as World War II is the public act of penance exacted from the defeated, a kind of cultural or intellectual reparations. Professor Meinecke is the perfect vehicle for this purpose. The dean of German historians, eighty-seven years old, dignified and respected, he has the double virtue of being personally free of the Nazi taint at the same time that he is frankly and intimately involved in the spiritual history of modern Germany.

 

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