There is an interesting article on Sigmar Gabriel's confrontation with his father's Nazi past in the new edition of "Die Zeit", see http://leserservice.zeit.de/die-zeit-diese-woche/. Gabriel is current Party leader of the German Social Democrats.
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schumachermaria
- http://www.facebook.com/maria.woodburn
- 2013-01-11 @ 10:31:07
Dear Bill,
I have the feeling that the reason for the Bader-Meinhof-Bande in Germany has to do with the fact that the children found out about the past of their fathers. Somehow people have to come to terms with the past.
I works the other way, too. I had a Jewish female friend who used to live in London. I used to see her a lot when I had no children. She could not come to terms with the Holocaust experience of her father. She wrote a dissertation about Holocaust Survivors. She said to me that the ghosts of the past are haunting her. This is an awful burden to carry.
She liked the first names of my children and always said that they are Yew names. But I pointed out to her that this is because they are Old Testament names. Jewish and christian people share this document. Just that Jewish people call it the Thora.
It will take years till these deeds of the past can be undone and maybe never will be.
Many greetings
Maria -
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schumachermaria
- http://www.facebook.com/maria.woodburn
- 2013-01-11 @ 10:31:38
Dear Bill,
I have the feeling that the reason for the Bader-Meinhof-Bande in Germany has to do with the fact that the children found out about the past of their fathers. Somehow people have to come to terms with the past.
I works the other way, too. I had a Jewish female friend who used to live in London. I used to see her a lot when I had no children. She could not come to terms with the Holocaust experience of her father. She wrote a dissertation about Holocaust Survivors. She said to me that the ghosts of the past are haunting her. This is an awful burden to carry.
She liked the first names of my children and always said that they are Yew names. But I pointed out to her that this is because they are Old Testament names. Jewish and christian people share this document. Just that Jewish people call it the Thora.
It will take years till these deeds of the past can be undone and maybe never will be.
Many greetings
Maria -
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