The war in memory. With Renate Aris, film screening and discussion with contemporary witnesses Renate Aris
The Second World War was a rupture. Millions were killed, maimed and suffered psychological injuries, lost relatives or their homes. Those who were children at the time still remember the war and the crimes of National Socialism today. In Germany, those who not only lost all state protection for racist, political, religious and other reasons in accordance with National Socialist ideology suffered in particular, but were also disenfranchised, dehumanised and killed by state-sanctioned violence.
From Renate Aris, who experienced the first years of the war in Dresden as the child of Jewish parents, to Herbert Wagner, who describes the expulsion from what is now the Czech Republic, to Hartmut Topf, descendant of the Topf & Sons family, who helped write inglorious German history as the who helped write inglorious German history as the ‘oven builders of Auschwitz’: In the film, ten people who themselves experienced the Second World War or are descendants of the war generation talk about their formative experiences and how these have influenced their biographies to this day.
In Cooperation with Volkshochschule Dresden
