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Nazi database takes Germans on personal journey into their families’ dark pasts
Guardian Australia

Nazi database takes Germans on personal journey into their families’ dark pasts

Die Zeit’s online database of individuals’ Nazi membership is prompting a reckoning as people uncover ties to regime Olaf Köndgen is 64 years old, a German citizen and a senior European human rights expert who has lived and worked in France for several years. Last month, Köndgen learned that he is also the son of a Nazi. Despite a strong interest in history and its lessons, Köndgen is typical of many 21st-century Germans in having had only the roughest outlines of his own family’s complicity with Hitler’s regime. Continue reading...

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