(One 30-minute segment)

This pro­gram updates and/or presents a num­ber of sto­ries con­cern­ing Ger­man power pol­i­tics and Ger­man fas­cism. Begin­ning with analy­sis of Ger­man lit­er­ary giant Goethe’s spy­ing on the pol­i­tics of his uni­ver­sity stu­dents, the pro­gram con­tin­ues with dis­cus­sion of a nation­al­is­tic speech by a recip­i­ent of the Book Trade’s Peace Prize that indi­cated Ger­man will­ing­ness to dis­so­ci­ate from the con­cept of national respon­si­bil­ity for the Third Reich. Next, the broad­cast high­lights the new min­is­ter of cul­tural affairs, Michael Nau­mann (pre­vi­ously CEO of Henry Holt & Co.). After dis­cus­sion of fric­tion between Ger­many, Holo­caust sur­vivors and the United King­dom over trade mat­ters, the pro­gram sets forth con­nec­tions between the milieu of vet­eran Ger­man Nazi Karl Polacek and indi­vid­u­als from the Waf­fen SS, SA and the orga­ni­za­tion of Karl­heinz Hoff­man, a Nazi ter­ror­ist impli­cated in the 1980 Munich Octo­ber­fest bomb­ing. (See also RFA-2, M-61 and FTRs 6, 44, 50, 94, 95, 120, 122, 123, 125, 126 and 127.) (Recorded in Feb­ru­ary of 1999.)