Germany’s Traumatized Kriegskinder Speak Out
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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The Importance of Family History
My grandfather was a school teacher in Alfeing, a little village in Germany. The fact that he was a Nazi didn't really come into our family conversations until I was late my teen years. My mother always talked about it as she had been sent there, but she never talked about what he did. It was kind of this blank spot. Because it was unbearable for her? I don't know if it was unbearable. She was scared to look into that hole.
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