Die Wiedergutmacher

Angela Merkel's historic decision in the summer of 2015 electrified German society, politicizing and polarizing the country as not since the days of the Weimar Republic. More than a million immigrants divided Germany into two intellectual civil war parties, whose fronts are visibly intensifying. With her historic gesture of welcome, has the chancellor finally proven that Germany has overcome its dark past? Or are she and many other German elites acting in the trauma shadow of history? In his book, Raymond Unger - himself affected by transgenerational trauma - revisits the effects of unprocessed war trauma on subsequent generations. The focus is on the baby boomer elites who, due to a lack of personal maturity and unprocessed guilt and atonement complexes, have to cope with their En.