“The Holocaust Is German Family History”
“German historian Moritz Pfeiffer asked his granddad what he did in World War II, and then fact-checked the testimony. His findings in a new book shed light on a dying generation that remains outwardly unrepentant, but is increasingly willing to break decades of silence on how, and why, it followed Hitler.”
> Article & photo abum (c) DER SPIEGEL, 2012
> The notion of cultural memory (c) Goethe Institut
PS. On the problematic function of family memroy, also see
> Harald Welzer, Grandpa wasn’t a Nazi (c) AJC
delirium clemens 
15 April 2012 at 09:22
Thanks for the posts. I always tried to find out from my maternal grandmother what living through war was like in Germany, but the questions were always ignored.
Since my mothers family moved here (Canada) when she was 3 (1953) and her father died in 1964, she never had the opportunity to ask difficult questions of him (or didn’t care to at such an age). It was probably something never discussed at home while they were trying to make a new life for themselves here, which behooves some assimilation, and was certainly not something she could have talked to her friends about.