Civil Wars: From L.A. to Bosnia.

The Nation | January 23, 1995| | Copyright

At the end of World War II, the Swiss writer Max Frisch compared war-ravaged Europe to a jungle. "This is what exists," he said, "the grass growing in the houses, the dandelions in the churches and suddenly one can imagine how it might all continue to grow, how a forest might creep over our cities, slowly, inexorably, thriving unaided by human hands." Meanwhile, an American official was reporting on his "disquieting" interviews with former top managers in the I.G. Farben company whose behavior "was characterized by self-pity, fawning self-justification and an injured sense of ...

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