The Death of Paper

While writing his Memoirs, Raymond Aron was led to reread the series of Letters from he had written for various French magazines (among them Alain's Libres propos and Guehenno's Europe) between 1931 and 1933 when, after finishing his studies, he had gone to Germany to teach. Aron was especially attentive to what these letters had to say since the fiftieth anniversary of the events he had described in them had brought them back into the limelight, where they received not entirely favorable response. The last letter in particular, which had appeared in September 1933 and in which he described the changes that had occurred in Germany following Hitler's rise to power, received especially harsh criticism. In it, Aron spoke (or didn't speak, as his critics pointed out) of the legendary book burnings of the night of May 10. Aron was in Berlin at the time and had gone to the site with Golo Mann. Fifty years later, historians had difficulty acknowledging that a witness of those now-legendary book burnings-a witness who, as a Frenchman, a Jew, and a leftist intellectual at the time, should have felt personally threatened by their implications-didn't find them worthy of more than an allusion. Allusion is in fact the word Aron used in his Memoirs: I made an allusion to the flames into which

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