How the children of Nazi Germany remember World War Two

[DGUtley]

How the children of Nazi Germany remember World War Two.

A new book has gathered the memories of ‘Kriegskinder’, next to portraits of them as they are now. Photographer Frederike Helwig reveals how they remember childhoods in Nazi Germany.

The memories have the patina of childhood: fragmented, vivid, without resolution. They place us, as readers, immediately there. And next to them, portraits of the elderly people whose childhoods we’re glimpsing. These are the Kriegskinder, or ‘war children’: so-called because they grew up in Nazi Germany during World War Two.
One of her subjects has had to confront that more than most. Born in 1939, Niklas Frank is the son of Hans Frank, the Nazi Governor of Poland, and he travelled through Europe with the human rights lawyer Philippe Sands in the acclaimed documentary My Nazi Legacy: What Our Fathers Did. His memory in Kriegskinder is from a childhood shopping trip with his mother and nanny. “We are driving through the Krakow Ghetto where my mother buys her furs and scarfs for a price of her own choosing. I am standing
in the back of the Mercedes, my nanny Hilde sitting next to me, in front next to the driver my mother,” he recalls. “I am wearing a black and white Pepita suit.

“The people look on sadly. I stick out my tongue to an older boy. He turns around, walks off, I feel like I won. I laugh triumphantly, but Hilde pulls me silently back into my seat.” Although it describes a juvenile encounter, it’s a disturbing memory. “Most of the first-hand accounts in the book are quite anecdotal,” says Helwig. “What they say is interesting – but also what they don’t say.”





https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/...-world-war-two

[nathanbforrest45]

Until we bombed the crap out of them they were the super race.

Today joe biden would say gassing Jews for being Jews is just a different perspective that we should respect and not try to judge.

[DGUtley]

You know, I have been posting these types of threads since the pandemic started. I really try to avoid anything US political about them.

[nathanbforrest45]

You know, I have been posting these types of threads since the pandemic started. I really try to avoid anything US political about them.

I think the forum is called Political Forum for a reason. Everything revolves around politics. My point was that we would, given the right "leadership" become no different from those living under Nazi rule. Those that are to never question their government easily believe they personally are better then anyone else.

[Cotton1]

I think the forum is called Political Forum for a reason. Everything revolves around politics. My point was that we would, given the right "leadership" become no different from those living under Nazi rule. Those that are to never question their government easily believe they personally are better then anyone else.

That doesn't mean every thread has to be political. Some have broader horizons or simply process things differently than say, you