Graham Bartram

Reviews : Gert Kerschbaumer, Karl Müller et al., Begnadet für das Schöne. Der rot-weiss-rote Kulturkampf gegen die Moderne, Vienna, Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, ISBN 3-85115-160-7, 1992; 366 pp.; ÖS 298,-:

goes on to show, is the support such notions found among trade union leaders. Even when parroting the virtues of democracy, the older Germans could not help but strike an anachronistic note. Roseman has two wonderful quotes to illustrate this point. In 1947, a British survey of miner-recruitment commented on the ’golden opportunity to introduce democratic practices. The trainees should not be nursed and cosseted but induced to do things for themselves.’ Contrast this with the intentions of the German director of apprentice education: ’Wir hoffen, ... Menschen