I was just curious, because those people had to have suffered emotional trauma greater than most could ever know. If they were offered therapy, was the German government forced to pay for it?
2006-11-16 11:51:50 · 5 answers · asked by two_kee_kees 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I agree with the previous answerers. Emotional trauma, and counselling or therapy for it, are modern developments which most older people just think are a silly invention. Right up to 1960 anyway, whatever happened to you, you were just expected to get over it with the help of your friends and family. Millions of men came home from years of horrendous active war service, and just had to go back to their normal type of jobs. Hundreds of thousands of civilians were bombed out of their homes, rehoused or relocated, and lots had seen some of their own family members die horribly, but they all just had to get on with things too. World War II was like 9/11 in New York, but happening three or four times a day every day for five years. Therapy for that scale of trauma is unimaginable, and nobody thought of it anyway. You just got on with things, somehow.
2006-11-16 23:01:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
At that time in history, therapy was not something that was automatically offered after trauma.
2006-11-16 19:59:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I never heard of any. There were millions of traumatized people at the end of the 2nd WW, not just Jews, so I'd say not.
2006-11-16 20:00:48 · answer #3 · answered by Bad bus driving wolf 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No - that sort of thing was not usual in those days
2006-11-17 01:26:54 · answer #4 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they were given their own country.
2006-11-16 20:18:34 · answer #5 · answered by mjtpopus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋