"This Nazi was not like the others"

On a new book that asks if history can be "irredeemable"

Some of my spring break reading last week brought me back in time to my days as a graduate student researching education in Germany during and after Nazi rule. Specifically, I though back to the the first few months of the year 2000, when I lived in the Alsatian city of Colmar, where the French government happened to have deposited the records of its oc…