Memory and Individual Identity in Post World War II German Literature

The events that occur around us shape our personality. Regardless of good or bad, the experience experienced by a person is directly related to that person growing up as an individual. People say that the sum of their experiences, more precisely the sum of their memories of these experiences. Memory of experience does not always reflect the literal truth of the event, but rather how it affects those who remember it. Two different people with the same experience can recall it in two different ways.

In 1999, Novel Award winning novelist GünterGrasse said, "The majority of Germany's success after the Second World War was due to efforts and self-sacrifice:" Such a hard work is a public action He adds more critically that what is tied to - that kind of behavior is immediate and confident - produces distant stereotypes with German indifference, but Germans tend to think that their personal Respecting friendship, keeping friendly relations with neighbors and tourists, emphasizing leisure and culture, enjoying free and democratic life, democracy and democracy became more integrated, became the core of unified Europe It was.

The story of the Germans of the 20th century and its dynamic understanding of the HST 429 semester There are many controversies about the accuracy of German collective memory in World War II, but I think that many different views have emerged think. In the past 60 years, German memories were patched together and showed that the Germans explored all aspects of the 20th century at least adequately. Germans are often expressed explicitly as perpetrators of the victims, especially in the minds of many "ordinary" Germans who believe that their suffering is an inevitable consequence of crime.