Culture at the Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal, of December 29, 2010, has a book review on their opinion page. The review by Sam Sacks, discusses Heinrich Boll (1917-1985) and the reissue of some of Boll's novels: The Clown, 1963 and The Safety Net (1979).  Boll's theme according to Sacks, is that "German national pride is tainted by association with Nazism." This fact, that notice is taken of German citizens and their relation to nazism, 65 years after the war ended, and now noticed in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, noticed very mildly and with little inspiration or analysis, this fact, makes me wonder what kind of coverage this periodical gave to stories about the participation by industrialists during the last war. This fact, I assure you, belongs in a blog about weird news.