Now the three-part series, commissioned by German public broadcaster ZDF, has been picked up for release in the United States as a two-part movie, with a TV broadcast also in the works. "Generation War," or "Our Mothers, Our Fathers," as the original German title translates to, is Germany's most recent look back at its Nazi history. For a while, Germany was thought of as the world champion in remembrance and praised for working so hard to cope with its fascist past.īut a recent German film production has re-ignited the international debate over German " Vergangenheitsbewältigung," a word that was created to express how a nation comes to terms with its past. However, the way Germans cope with this past has radically changed throughout the last decades and is continuously debated and scrutinized. German schools rigorously educate about the Nazi past and it's safe to argue that Germans, no matter how old, are very much aware of their Nazi past, even nearly 70 years after the end of World War II. Early on they are confronted with the dark doings, horrors and atrocities of the Nazi regime. Germans tend to know there is no denying the past.
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