Germany’s Traumatized Kriegskinder Speak Out
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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The Importance of Family History
I know that there's a resistance to talking about German trauma and German suffering during the war. Is that why the radio station wasn't interested back then, do you think? Yes. At that time, all the editors in the radio stations or in their newspapers or the people in charge, they belonged to that age group. So I had to wait for a change of generation that people said, oh, yeah, that's interesting. Why don't you make a piece for me? That's about my parents?"
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