İ don`t know, how many times İ had this book in my hands and İ decided not to buy it. İt was in a small second hand bookshop in galatasaray. The same where İ got the first edition of Feuchtwangers “Jud Süss”. Second hand books usally cost about 1 EUR, but Dan Diners “Das Jahrhundert verstehen” was 15 EUR.
He`s doing the impossible: writing about the 20th century universally. Talking about sovjet revolution and shoah, first worldwar and 1989 changements. And about, as he calls the armenian catastrophe.
İ haven`t read much yet. İ just know, that Dan Diner has interstings views what`s going on know in middle east and that he is insisting to compare the shoah to the stalinist gulag system, comparing in difference, like he say`s.
So İ start to read, reading critically, as İ do not really understand, why he is playing with this pattern, used by revisionists.
Now İ bought this book, also because İ would like some answers to the questions İ asked here.
So, dear readers, if you are able to give me some hint`s, how to read Dan Diner, You`re welcome.