Author | : Helmut Lethen |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2002-03-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520916417 |
Cool Conduct is an elegant interpretation of attitudes and mentalities that informed the Weimar Republic by a scholar well known for his profound knowledge of this period. Helmut Lethen writes of "cool conduct" as a cultivated antidote to the heated atmosphere of post-World War I Germany, as a way of burying shame and animosity that might otherwise make social contact impossible.