Germany Revisited

Mr. Voigt concedes that the new Germany is materialistic. But, he thinks, it is hence unlikely to march again into fanaticism

That the German. Federal Republic is “materialistic” has become a matter of common observation. I have just visited Germany for the fourth time since the war and have found “materialism” gross and abundant. I have found British and American colleagues, who are in no way inclined to be Pharisaical, very emphatic on the subject—and many Germans more so. (Some Germans who fled from the German “People’s Democracy” have even gone back, because they have been repelled by the “materialism” which, so they say, has no counterpart on the far side of the Iron Curtain.)

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Mr. Voigt concedes that the new Germany is materialistic. But, he thinks, it is hence unlikely to march again into fanaticism

That the German. Federal Republic is “materialistic” has become a matter of common observation. I have just visited Germany for the fourth time since the war and have found “materialism” gross and abundant. I have found British and American colleagues, who are in no way inclined to be Pharisaical, very emphatic on the subject—and many Germans more so. (Some Germans who fled from the German “People’s Democracy” have even gone back, because they have been repelled by the “materialism” which, so they say, has no counterpart on the far side of the Iron Curtain.)