Why don Nazi children feel free after so many years ?
Most Nazi children are prisoners of the past. We who started the first independent organization for Nazi children in 1991 must admit that the large majority of us are still mute about family history. The few who have been overt and open to the Nazi past have not managed to penetrate the shell of protection which our comrades have constructed from early childhood. Some could think that the traumas of Nazi children are fictitious, that these persons are ordinary citizens who just prefer silence. We who have met many of them over the years can attest the contrary. Their muteness is not a result of indifference or free choice but of fear. It is certainly not easy to analyze persons who hide, who refuse to talk about complex and hurting familial and social matters. At least I would rather trust Nazi children who extrapolate from same living experiences than I would trust anti-Nazi academics who more and more dig into our topic. First I would say that Nazi children in hiding fight with two k
