ABSTRACT
This essay was first published as a review of Edmund Vermeil, The German Scene (London, Harvey, 1956), in the New Statesman and Nation, 52, 1334 (6 October 1956). The essay marks Alan Taylor's continuing suspicion concerning Germany even in its post-war divided state. In it he observes of Hitler and his actions, that 'we have almost got to the point of admitting that it was all our fault for not standing up to him in March 1936'. The politician in his eighties was Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967), Chancellor of West Germany (1949-63).
