Re: [Cz-L] By gun and by knife.

Last night I saw the film "Lore," a German/UK co-production, adapted
from a novel by Rachel Seiffert and directed by Cate Shortland. It's a
story about 14 year old Lore who is left by her parents to take care
of her five siblings, so that they can go into hiding to avoid arrest
for the crimes they committed during the 4th Reich. In the beginning
Lore greets people with "Heil Hitler" and tearfully laments the
Fürer's death, "he loved us so," she says....but in the course the
grueling journey through defeated Germany, seeing corpses, witnessing
rape, experiencing hunger, seeing news reports of what happened, she
little by little comes to the realization of what actually took place
and the guilt of her parents. Eventually they reach their Omi's house
in Hamburg where there is clean clothing and plenty of food & when for
a moment it looks like a "happy ending" - but Lore's awareness has
gone beyond the myths spouted by their grandmother - "don't ever be
ashamed of what your parents did..." The strongest moment of the film
is when Lore disobeys Omi's etiquette and destroys the shrine of
porcelain Schwarzwald creatures that are part of the German mythology

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Christian Herrmann <cyberorange_at_gmx.de> wrote:
> Dear Hardy,
>
> the books you are asking for, exist. They are rare exceptions, but they have been writen. To remain silent was the standard in post-war Germany. "Opa war kein Nazi" (Grandpa was not a Nazi) was the title of a scientific study on family memories a few years ago. The title is very self speaking.
>
> Concerning the books, I would recommend this:
>
> Schweigen die Täter reden die Enkel (If the perpetrators remain silent, the grandsons speak) by Claudia Brunner and Uwe von Seltmann
>
> Die Brüder Himmler: Eine deutsche Familiengeschichte (The Himmler Brothers, a German Family History) by Katrin Himmler
>
> Der Schatten meines Vaters (The Shadow of my Father) by Richard von Schirach
>
> Schweigen tut weh: Eine deutsche Familiengeschichte (Silence Hurts, a German Family History) by Alexandra Senfft
>
> Am Beispiel meines Bruders (Using the example of my brother) by Uwe Timm
>
> Concerning Serah's point, if there was justice: No, there was none. Only a very small number of perpetrators were imprisoned or ended at the gallows of the Allies. The most had a normal life, a pension or even did built a career on their past.
>
> I remember my biology teacher in school, who praised - without any need - the "achievements" of nazi experiments on prisoners in concentration camps. He was a young man, born after the war. Why did he? Because his professor at the university was able to build a career after the war on the base of the data of his own experiments. When critical questions about the origin of the data came up, some students felt solidarity with the professor.
>
> I remember a school mate who studied medicine later. Once she took me to the exhibition of medical preparations in the university of Cologne. I saw a longitudinal section throug a pregnat woman. I asked her where this exhibits came from. She said they were from political prisoners who were executed during the nazi dictatorship in the city jail. Years later I read in the newspaper that this human remains were buried. A very late justice.
>
> Christian
>

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