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Why Germans Can Never Escape Hitler's Shadow
By Michael Sontheimer
SPIEGEL staff writer and historian Michael Sontheimer reveals his family's Nazi past and explains why even his 11-year-old son still has a burden to bear. As the 60th anniversary of Germany's defeat approaches, he analyzes the ever-present debate about German guilt, memory and responsibility that still divides the country.
Meanwhile, my 11-year-old son has started to ask me about the Nazis. While we were living in London, his schoolmates sometimes greeted him mockingly with a "Heil Hitler." Although he was born almost 50 years after the "Fuehrer" shot himself in his bunker, he, too, can't escape history. That is not something I regret.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,345720,00.html