DW Arts And Culture July 14, 2024
Innocence that was formative for cold sense of home and for her identity as a german the more time she spent abroad the greater her interest grew in finding out what her family had done during the nazi era. Times column for instance he drew swastikas in his School Notebook joined the s s and was killed in combat at the age of 18. Or her grandfather villi of a driving instructor what did he see in 1938 when the synagogue across from his office was set on fire. These and many other episodes are collected in kochs book titled High Mountain german and in the u. K. Belonging in the us edition its a...