How do we remember Nazi past? To rise of a ethnic party, to increasing stigma of individual population groups culminating in Holocaust, ir systematic and industrial assassination? This question arises not only on today’s 8th May, day of liberation of Germany by Allies. It turns out every day, especially in times when AfD boss Alexander Gaula calls, one must also be proud of achievements of German Wehrmacht, and his party friend Björn Höcke denigrated Holocaust memorial as a “monument of shame”.
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On one hand re is institutionalized culture of remembrance, to which many Germans are proud: in Berlin alone, Holocaust memorial, Jewish Museum, Topography of terror, House of Wannsee Conference and capitulation Museum have created a number of places Where horror of Nazism is thought.
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There is, on or, remembering in private. And it seems that many Germans are glossing over ir own family history. In a study published in February, only 17.6 percent of respondents reported that ir ancestors were perpetrators of Second World War. About as many as 18 percent, however, affirmed statement that ir ancestors had helped in period up to 1945 potential victims. 54 percent said ir ancestors were mselves victims of Nazi regime.
It is estimated that number of people who were in danger of being threatened by Nazi regime was 20,000 to 200,000. 200,000, which would correspond to a share of 0.3 percent of population at that time – a figure far lower than 18 percent of current survey.
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Against background of se figures, we would like to ask you: Has German perception shifted? How is your family talking about Nazi era? Do you know if your ancestors were members of NSDAP? is a complicity discussed? Or is focus rar on one’s own suffering, suffering of displaced, war-driven, bereaved?
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