Emotional wounds that never heal

Discusses the discriminatory content of Compensation Laws for Holocaust survivors in West Germany. Explains how this was partly based on the lack of knowledge of the long-term after effects of psychic trauma, and also the unwillingness of German physicians to accept psychological harm to survivors after the Holocaust. It was only after establishment of new diagnostic category Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the 1980s(into psychiatry worldwide) that personal mental consequences of the Holocaust were recognized as grounds for compensation.