Die schwierige Erinnerung

A study based on a sequence of discussion groups held between January-March 1992 in Frankfurt with former German resistance fighters of different political and religious backgrounds, examining their attitude towards the persecution and annihilation of the Jews in the Holocaust at the time. States that although the topic was a focal point in Nazi politics, it occupied no central place in the resistance. Presents excerpts from the discussion groups, relating also the experiences of some of them with Jewish prisoners in concentration camps, latent antisemitism, failed rescue actions, experiences of fear, etc. Argues that, throughout the discussion, the notion of "resistance" remains vague vis-à-vis the Nazi persecution of the Jews.