Joseph Kanon - The Good German

This conversation with the American author Joseph Kanon took place in London when the novel The Good German was published.

The backdrop to the story is World War II.

In 2001such a war seemed a far distant nightmare that could never happen again. Surely it really could never happen because everyone knows how unthinkably bad it is.

But it is happening. As Joseph says in this conversation  .... who are the people who are inflicting these outrages? Do their mothers know what they are doing? Who could possibly think such outrages are justifiable?