The intellectual condition of post-war Western Europe would have been unrecognizable to a visitor from even the quite recent past. German-speaking central Europe-the engine room of European culture for the first third of the twentieth century-had ceased to exist. (Tony Judt)

The intellectual condition of post-war Western Europe would have been unrecognizable to a visitor from even the quite recent past. German-speaking central Europe-the engine room of European culture for the first third of the twentieth century-had ceased to exist.

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