Where Germans Make Peace with Their Dead
Burkhard Bilger attends a session with Gabriele Baring where Germans address their family histories and inherited trauma from the Second World War.
In Herzogenweiler, the Devil was more than an idle threat—"the dark stranger who might come knocking at your door some windy night; the man with the hooded eyes at the end of the bar, lazily flipping a coin." The village midwife Luise knew mortality intimately; she saw the dead on the roads.