To condemn and to understand: a turning point in German historical remembrance
TitleTo condemn and to understand: a turning point in German historical remembrance
Author
Call numberS940.5318/002
Object number01126E
Place of publicationJerusalem
PublisherYad Vashem
Year of publication
1988
Dimensionspp93-105
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the journal "Yad Vashem Studies" Vol.19 pp93-105
Description
Asks the question: how to understand the majority of parents and grandparents, not condemn them, yet also remain conscious of the country's responsibility for its unparalleled crimes, to be like the others - the more so the younger we are - yet also be the descendants of those who perpetrated the Holocaust - how is this going to be possible?