- Concern
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
- Documentary Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something you cannot possibly escape: your psychological make-up is such that you are inclined to look back over your shoulder.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020