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When family silence speaks volumes

My German family never talks about what they did during the war and the silence feels more damning than any confession could be.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Unacknowledged complicity in historical harm creates its own form of inherited burden.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Historical grief — intergenerational mourning?”

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