Nachkriegskinder

The bestsellers by Sabine Bode now available as reader-friendly gift editions

The 1950s: a time of economic miracle and new beginnings. People looked to the future. However, the children of the post-war generation were born into families burdened by experiences of war, captivity, displacement, and guilt. How did all this affect their own life patterns?

Post-war children are generally those born up to 1960 - in both East and West. Their parents were not children of the war; rather, they experienced the war as adults, with fathers often serving as active participants. Today, these children are beginning to reflect on their youth. They want to understand how growing up in a post-war society has shaped them and are asking questions about their fathers. This book helps members of this generation to comprehend the inconsistencies in their own life stories and to discover new resources for themselves.

In her book, Sabine Bode explores the questions that many post-war children grapple with:

• Who was my father really - and as long as I don't know that: who am I?
• What lay behind my father's silence?
• Was he a perpetrator, a victim, or both?
• To what extent did he benefit from the Nazi era?
• How did my father's war shape our family life?
• What have I "inherited" from him?
• How would I have developed as a woman/man without a war father?.