Germany by Other Means

Germany by Other Means

Freedom: Memoirs 1954—2021by Angela MerkelSt. Martin’s Press, 720 pages, $40On a calm, cool September afternoon in 1939, an actual nightmare took solid form on the streets of the handsome town of Brest-Litovsk. I could say that Brest-Litovsk was in Poland, as it had been until that day. But it would not really be true. The town lies in those strange badlands where (if you are not murdered or deported by the latest invader) you may visit several …