![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nora Krug won several awards for her graphic memoir Image: Nina Subin As an exchange student from Germany, she tried to hide her accent and felt that the shame of history was in her genes, Krug reveals in her graphic memoir, Heimat: A German Family Album (US title: Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home). The feeling of "collective German guilt" was well anchored in every young student of Nora Krug's generation, and it accompanied her as she traveled abroad as a teenager. German children who were born decades after World War II quickly realized that the atrocities that were committed under Hitler were nevertheless part of their own, direct past: If, like illustrator and author Nora Krug, you grew up in West Germany in the 1980s, you definitely learned about the Holocaust and different aspects of Nazism early on in school.Īs part of an essential process known as " Vergangenheitsbewältigung," or coming to terms with one's political past, the curriculum in German schools brought students to thoroughly discuss and analyze the mechanisms that led to such atrocities they'd also visit concentration camps and commemorate victims of the Holocaust. ![]()
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