Holocaust there is even a special word for it forgotten heights but then take on confrontation with the past and one example of that forgotten event to go is the culture of remembrance including a monument that remembers the holocaust just a few kilometers from here. the memorial to the murdered jews of europe it took a good twenty five years for the plans to be brought to completion. its location in berlin s government district is perhaps the most visible indication of germany s intent to face up to its history. unobtrusive in contrast are what are called stumbling stone they reflect the everyday horrors of the nazi era and commemorate jews who were deported murdered or driven out tens of thousands have been placed all across germany and europe making them the world s largest decentralized memorial. and then there are the places of horror themselves such as auschwitz
Changed is that the clients in germany of public discussion of private discussions a lot of things are being set that would have been impossible ten years ago fifteen years ago and this doesn t go only for anti jewish resentments but it goes for anything that is considered different that is considered any end to german somehow . we have this growing fear sentiment of everything should stay as it is germans are one nation and they look like this and they act like this whatever comes here has to be act like this and this kind of assimilation so it goes not only against jews who goes especially against muslims why not all this is like if you read sometimes texts of nowadays if you replaced were muslim with jewish it gets really frightening to me you know we have this kind of stigmatization that always is the beginning of further development to more violent reactions towards minorities the
Jewish. really yeah i don t see it that way yeah oh yeah i hardly told anyone not at university either. and i don t keep quiet about it because to me that would feel like something i should be ashamed about myself even if that s not how it is for usually i think we were secretly an assist you know i m jewish but you don t my kitchen to stress their problem this is the image my being. has the mobbing experience that your son went through changed the children s attitude and if you look toward the young israelis who in the past years have been coming to berlin with great alacrity would you say to those thinking about becoming better stay away no i wouldn t say better stay away but i would say brace yourself be aware.
To what kind of city and what kind of country you re coming to and look really carefully and which area you want to live but i think most israelis will coming to germany are wealthy things i can t imagine anybody from all countries in the world that i want to resettle to germany that they haven t thought about that but in your own kids have their attitudes changed. i don t think their attitudes have changed because they were always aware of this my daughter as we have seen says iraq a high being jewish she s studying in england and england especially at the universities there is a very lively and to some it isn t at the moment and my son studies in the us and there s not such a big profitable to submit as and so they see it from their own point of view but it has changed my son my wife and me and my parents ferry much we see. this
To act out. big ears that. this is you know and to some it is a motley factorial thing i mean stupid to say that but it s true their. use of if you like traditional real anti semites who somehow may feel emboldened by the internet from social media they re the new and the semites call themselves anti globalists who are situated within these so-called alternative for germany this new party they never say they re against jews but it s always the east coast the capitalists and then it s goldman sachs or whatever and somehow it all boils down to the old enemy and then there is something which is on the left and in muslim muslim community which is designed ism and ever since nine hundred sixty seven you know the sixty eight as my generation they were so proud they said well we confronted our parents about what they did in the nazi past that is true up to