Status Updates From The Bitter Taste of Victory...

Este livro me fez apreciar o olhar de empatia que Stig Dagerman descreveu seus relatos sobre a Alemanha destruida do pós guerra. Aqui os Estados Unidos e sua democracia de reconstrução prega o que combatia: a "desumanização ".

'...writers and film-makers including Stephen Spender, W. H. Auden, Billy Wilder, Humphrey Jennings and Goronwy Rees went to Germany in the summer of 1945 aiming to help rehabilitate the country'

'Visiting a London exhibition of waxworks illustrating German atrocities, he [George Orwell] was sickened by captions inviting people to 'Come inside and see real Nazi tortures, flogging, crucifixion, gas chambers'.'

'Some 796 bombers visited Dresden that night creating a firestorm that eliminated much of the city.'

'To arrive in Germany in the final months of the Second World War was to confront an apocalypse.'

Un excelente texto, que me recuerda mucho a Dresde: 1945. Fuego y oscuridad de Sinclair McKay, quien hablaba de las ruinas causada por los 796 bombarderos que asolaron a Dresde. En este libro, la autora a mano de las fuentes de escritores del momentos va dejando historias sueltas de esos años que ensombrecieron a Alemania.