in germany as a toursist or as a german resident, is it allowed. (i'm under the impresson that's it too much of a touchy subject to learn about)
2007-03-09 13:48:02 · 11 answers · asked by evanescent_eclipse 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Yes, of course it is permitted to talk about it, it is only forbidden to deny, trivialize or approve it. We all have to learn about it at school, there are many TV documentations about it, "Schindler's List" was a very successful film in Germany, all the major former concentration camps are memorials now (I have visited some), there are many books published about it in Germany (I have read dozens, and just to give you an impression I just entered "Holocaust" in the search function of my university library and got 1352 hits), there are Holocaust survivors who speak in schools or elsewhere in public (I have heard some), here in my town there is a memorial in shape of a flame made of Stars of David at the spot where the old synagogue was (a new one is built now) and every year on November 9 there is an hour of remembrance there and the names of the Jews from this town who were killed in the Holocaust are written there, in Berlin there is a large memorial for the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust....
The subject was really quite a taboo in the 50s and beginning of the 60s but it has changed. I think it is because 20 years afterwards a generation that had not lived then or was still very small then had grown up and could speak about it a lot easier than the generation that lived then. I mean in the 50s and 60s for example people in the towns near to former concentration camps didn't want them to become memorials because they didn't want to be reminded. They became memorials with museums and all that starting end of the 60s. But my mother who went to school in the 50s said she did learn much about the Holocaust then, but that it was an exception at that time because she had a very good teacher who had contact with members of what was left of the Jewish community in Hamburg then and had special concern to properly educate her students.
I am not offended if someone brings up the topic as long as they don't blame me or others who were born afterwards, but I am very much interested in it and willing to talk about it. When something so horrible happens you can't just ignore it afterwards. I mean you can, but it would only make everything worse. It disgusts me to see how it was often brushed under the carpet in the 50s and 60s.
2007-03-10 01:21:49 · answer #1 · answered by Elly 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Talking about the holocaust in Germany is almost a taboo. Germans aren't ignorant that it didn't happen, but they don't like to talk about it because they feel guilty. A german director made a movie about the holocaust and released it in Germany this year, and he got in big trouble. I guess you could talk about it with family members or something, but if you say it in a pub, be wearing body armor (jk).
2016-03-28 22:15:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have some family who lived in Germany WNW 2 and they farther know the a camp near town
i have Coriss in live Germany now i ask them about this they that it is a very touchy subject
2007-03-09 14:47:49 · answer #3 · answered by jewle8417 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, actually, it is even encouraged to learn about the holocaust. What isn't allowed is DENYING the holocaust -- it carries a prison sentence in Germany.
2007-03-09 13:55:10 · answer #4 · answered by Dandirom 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's not a Nazi country over there. Obviously it's probably something that they dont want to talk about, but it's not like it's illegal. Like in the US how we dont really want to talk about the Trail of Tears or Slavery, or the next 100 years after the Civil War, or many other things.
2007-03-09 15:53:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes and it's become a hotly debated topic for German scholars and intellectuals especially since the 1970's.
2007-03-09 14:11:27 · answer #6 · answered by langstaff 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A wise tourist in Germany would not bring up the subject and it would be unwise to have an opinion or state it in public.
2007-03-09 14:00:03 · answer #7 · answered by Bullfrog21 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is and there are memorial there so that the German people don't make the same mistake again. So far they are two for two in world wars. What do you think the chances are that they learned their lesson?
2007-03-09 13:52:48 · answer #8 · answered by moonrose777 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes, and school groups are taken to the concentration camp at Dachau so that they see it, as well as study it in their classes.
2007-03-11 18:56:40 · answer #9 · answered by Berta 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
on answers it a subject better to stay away from,, you will attract a lot of tossers
2007-03-09 13:56:39 · answer #10 · answered by da rinse mode 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋