“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 