ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the implications and relevance of history in light of the war crimes and violations of human rights that burden the twenty-first century. It conducts several interviews with men and women who lived through the Nazi tyranny and its aftermath. The chapter explores how the crimes of the Third Reich have reverberated through the succeeding generations of Germans, burdening the offspring of both the victims and the perpetrators. The central theme of it conversation with Kurt Meyer Jr. was the issue of war crimes and the Nuremberg Trials. Kurt Meyer Jr. and Heinrich von Trott collaborated in a spirit of fellowship on Geweint wird, which they sent me immediately upon its publication. The chapter encounters with Kurt Meyer Jr. and Heinrich von Trott, and the painful life stories of his father and family recounted in Herr Meyer's moving memoir.
