We Germans
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Dayton Literary Peace Prize – Fiction | 2021 | Winner |
About This Book
A short, concentrated novel presented as a letter from a German grandfather to his half-English grandson. The grandfather, now old, reflects with painful honesty on his service as a young Wehrmacht soldier on the Eastern Front, the terrible things he saw and participated in, and the question of how ordinary people become instruments of atrocity. A profound meditation on guilt, memory, and inherited responsibility. Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction.
About the Author
Alexander Starritt is a British author and journalist. He studied at the University of Oxford and has worked as a journalist and editor. He is the author of the novel We Germans (2020), a short but extraordinarily concentrated work presented as a letter written by a German grandfather to his half-English grandson, in which the grandfather reflects on his service as a Wehrmacht soldier on the Eastern Front during World War II and the moral compromises it entailed. Read more →
