Germany: The Nazis in my Family
By DW
15 December 2019 |
3:06 pm
Eighty years after the beginning of World War II, a new generation of Germans is facing the reality of what their relatives did during the Nazi era. Some young people are the first members of their families to talk openly about the feeling of shame.
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