'One goes left to the Russians, the other goes right to the Americans'- family recollections of the Holocaust in Europe

The public and private discourse about the Holocaust in contemporary Germany is contradictory. The majority of Germans are aware of their problematic past and no longer deny that Nazi Germany was responsible for the Second World War. The second and third generations remain convinced that 'their '
ancestors did not do anything bad. They distinguish between their grandparents (good guys) and the Nazis (the others).