Thank you Günter Grass (d. 2015), Sebastian Haffner (d. 2019), Fritz Stern (d. 2016) and Nora Krug for these magnificent memoirs, written by a novelist, a journalist, an historian, and a graphic artist, respectively. Each supplied me with inspiration--ENDPAPERS is part memoir, after all--but also four distinct angles on what Stern called "the German catastrophe." Highest recommendation for each.