
After the end of WWII, various members of a German middle-class family (2 appalled by nazism, others former nazis, including passionate believers & 1 wartime criminal) all end up in Rome for a few days for different reasons. It's incredibly bleak & shows how the nazi ideology never went away: people were just more discreet & biding their time. I hope it hasn't come. Not good for my anxiety level but an important book, written in the 50s.