"I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?" Hermann Hesse We turn in this next essay from the subtle, Zen inflected musings of Kawabata to another Nobelist, this one a lifelong yearning seeker of self understanding. In the original 2015…
A review of Sweden's neutrality and refugee policy. An attempt to set the events from 1933-1945 in the prevailing spirit of the times. In Sweden, consensus and welfare policies were developed, while Central Europe was characterized by major contradictions. "Herr Hitler is an insult!" wrote Gothenburg's Handels- och Sjöfartstidning. But the public debate in Sweden during World War II was otherwise characterized by an almost unimaginable cluelessness. Different people came to take a stand on Nazi Germany in completely different ways, as unique documentary films and interviews show.
From The Times, May 5, 1923The Burgomaster of Nuremberg has informed the City Council that the local police recently discovered at the headquarters of the Natio