But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.
Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.
Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.
Jews, Germans, and Allies is an important historical document, especially in light of those revisionists who would impose a universal amnesia about the suffering and losses incurred during the Holocaust. The grim statistics that Ms. Grossmann presents in her carefully researched and well-organized book carry evidence of the terrible truth. But the testimony of the survivors she quotes contains the final, ineradicable facts of history.