Originally published as Die Schuldfrage in 1947. © 1965 Piper Verlag GmbH, München, Germany.

Translation © 1948 by The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, a Division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Perspectives in Continental Philosophy, No. 16
ISSN 1089-3938

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Jaspers, Karl, 1883-1969.

[Schuldfrage. English]
The question of German guilt / Karl Jaspers ; translated by E.B. Ashton, with a new introduction by Joseph W. Koterski.
p. cm.—(Perspectives in continental philosophy ; no. 16)
Originally published: New York: Dial Press, 1947.
ISBN 0-8232-2068-0—ISBN 0-8232-2069-9 (pbk.)
1. National socialism. 2. World War, 1939-1945—Germany. 3. World War, 1939–1945—Atrocities. 4. Germany—History—Philosophy. 5. Antisemitism—Germany—History—20th century. I. Ashton, E. B., 1909- II. Tide. III. Series.

DD256.48 J3713 2000
943.086—dc21
00-029375

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