novel Ctab Walk, published last month. The book, which will be out in English next year, doesn’t dwell on the sinking ;its heroine is a pregnant young woman who survives the catastrophe only to say later: “Nobody wanted to hear about it, not here in the West (of Germany)and not at all in the East.” The reason was obvious. As Grass put it in a recent interview with the weekly Die Woche: “because the crimes are responsible for were and so dominant, we didn’t have the energy left to tell to our own sufferings.”
The long silence about the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was probably unavoidable-and necessary. By unreservedly owning up to their country’s monstrous crimes in the Second World War Germans have managed to win acceptance abroad, marginalize (使不得) the neo-nazis at home and make peace with their neighbors. Today’s unified Germany is prosperous and stable than at any time in its long, troubled history. For that ,a half century century of willful forgetting about painful memories like the German Titanic was perhaps a reasonable price to pay. But even the most politically correct Germans believe that they’ve now earned the right to discuss the full historical record. Not to equate German suffering with that of its victims, but simply to acknowledge a terrible tragedy.
21.Why does the author say the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was the worst tragedy in maritime history?
A) It was attacked by Russian torpedoes..
B) most of its passengers were frozen to death.
C) Its victims were mostly women and children.
D) It caused the largest number of casualties.
22. Hundreds of families dropped into the sea when
A) a strong ice storm tilted the ship
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