A Visit from the German Student United Nations Group

A German Student Group had arrived to Visit our Peace Coalition to speak and share.

and it was so very interesting as one vistitor to our group had asked them how they felt as

Germans regarding the Nazis and how did this effect them . These were very young Germans,

17,18,19 and any older. What did they know of this past? They were very honest and said that it was a question that they were constantly asked all of the time regarding the Nazi Regime. Being a mix of Western and East German Students. I admit it did make me wonder how they dealt with the second and tertiary hand smoke that has landed on them.

My sense was that they were trying desperately to separate themselves from the atrocities committed by another generation of Germans . That for them carving out a new identity for themselves was very important and as one of them said them that there was so much shame that it was hard to have any German Nationalism like waving flags and such.