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Germany:
To Be or Not To Be?
BY
GERHART H.
SEGER
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Former Member of the Reichstag; Editor
of
the Neue Volksuitung, New rork
AND
SIEGFRIED K. MARCK, Ph.D.
Professor
of
Philosophy
in
Central rMCA
College;
formerly
in
Universities of Breslau
and
Dijon
INTRODUCTION
BY
DR. GEORGE N. SHUSTER
President
of
Hunter
College
NEW
YORK
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THE RAND SCHOOL PRESS
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Copyright, 1943,
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RAND SCHOOL PRESS
All rights reserved.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Foreword
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Is Hitler the Climax of German History?
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Can the Germans Be Re-educated?
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Shall Germany Be Destroyed or Reborn?
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Germany and Europe
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A Peace That Can Endure
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II. Was Germany on the Road to Democracy?· ...............
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Appendixes
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A "Free" Germany Committee
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Democratic Germans Speak
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Nazist Terror in Germany
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors
record
their
appreciation
of
valuable
aid
rendered
by Eric
Seligo in
pre-
paring
the
copy
for
this work
and
to
Algernon Lee for
assistance
in
carrying
it
through the press.
The publishers thank the
Forward
Asso-
ciation,
the Ladies' Garment Workers'
Union,
the Rand School
of
Social Science,
and
numerous
individuals,
who
have helped in
initial
financing by purchasing copies
in
ad-
vance of
publication,
and also
to thank the
Clara
Rothstein Memorial Fund for
a sub-
stantial
contribution.
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GERMANY:
TO BE OR NOT TO BE?
FOREWORD
By
GEORGE
N.
SHUSTER
This book is concerned with as important and
absorbing a question as mankind has asked itself
in a hundred years. What will Germany be and
do when this war is over?
Many have already tried to find an answer. If
I am recommending very specially what the
authors of the following pages have to say, it is
not because spokesmen for different points of vie\v
are without merit, or even because I agree with
Gerhart Seger and Siegfried Marek in every
detail. I am writing this introduction because
it
seems to me that the chapters which follow dis-
cuss the future of Germany realistically, plausibly,
and in the spirit of dedication to the loftiest social
aims of mankind.
An eye-witness, who has made sacrifices for the
cause he describes, is a reliable commentator on
that cause; and both Seger and Marek have suf-
fered for their convictions. A man like Seger,
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