My friend, the man who tried to kill Hitler
The would-be assassin Axel von dem Bussche was subject to the same pressures of guilt and shame that condition all our lives.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
Professor emeritus in the faculty of philosophy at the University of Cambridge. His latest book is Not Thinking Like a Liberal.
The would-be assassin Axel von dem Bussche was subject to the same pressures of guilt and shame that condition all our lives.
By Raymond Geuss