“HIS ELECTION,” GÉRALDINE SCHWARZ writes of Donald Trump near the end of an affecting family history about her grandparents during World War II, “was part of the reason I decided to write Those Who Forget.”
The book is not about the United States; it deals with Vichy France and the Third Reich, where Schwarz’s middle-class grandparents played minor but unheroic roles. She is a French German journalist living in Berlin, and she’s as appalled as anyone by the rise of the far-right in Europe and the United States. Her answer to the cultural amnesia of the last five or 10 years has been this exacting and detailed memoir, a blend of personal and political history.
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