Germany’s Traumatized Kriegskinder Speak Out
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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The Importance of Being a Creakskin
I was carrying the hope, you know, for a better life. You and your brothers are very slightly apart. I mean, they were alive during the war. You were not. What was the difference between being a creakskin to being a knock creakskin, as you would be called? The main thing is when they were very small children, when they were just born in the first one, two, three years,. They had parents and they had an environment of adults which felt stressed all the time. Whereas me, I belong to the generations with the lowest rate of newborns.
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