Griel Marcus on Germans

"There are a lot of Germans here, both because in the first half of the twentieth century Germans probably made more history than any other people, and because in the second half of the century they looked so fervently to culture not only as a substitute for history, as a means of escaping from it, but also as a field for making history, for changing their and anyone else's sense of what history is."

~cultural historian, Greil Marcus in the Dustbin of History