Have you ever considered that not only the surviving victims of the Nazis were traumatized but also the local children whose fathers had died in war or during captivity, who had lost their homes in bomb attacks, who had seen blood, death and destruction, who had suffered from hunger and had been victims of crime during anarchic times?
The author and journalist Sabine Bode did.
In her book: „The Forgotten Generation – The War Children Break their Silence” she provides those who have survived World War II as children and youths a chance to comment on what they had been felt obliged to keep to themselves for decades: their personally experienced war hardships.