Figure 1. "These atrocities: your fault!", The American occupation zone, 1945
The first months after the capitulation of Germany, the character of the
communication of the victors with the defeated influenced the idea of the collective
guilt of the people. At this time, the "voluntary-compulsory" spectators were shown a
documentary film about the concentration camps "Death Mills". The film was shown
with a specific education and labor target. For example, in the Soviet-American
occupation zones the administration issued cards for products only to those who had a
mark on the visit to the cinema [10, 79].
Attempts to restore the dialogue, public discussion of the causes and
consequences of the period of Nazism took place at the second stage of the policy of
memory - "confrontation / business with German misconduct". In the late 1960s,
qualitative changes occurred during the scientific study of the history of the Third
Reich. In the writings of H. Fisher, who caused a lively discussion, which went far
beyond the scientific sphere, revealed the most important problem of the continuity of
economic and political structures of the Third Reich to the Bonn Germany. The married
couple of psychoanalysts Micherlikh in 1967, in the book "Inability to Sorrow" [16],
based on examples of the hostile attitude of individuals and the masses as a whole, to
the recognition of guilt for complicity in political crimes, pointed to the lack of activity
of the authorities in overcoming Nazi crimes during Adenauer's time [11,210].
Not wanting to know anything about the shadows of the past, guilty and
atonement, Germany approached the protest line, which ended with the participation
of the students of the "generation 68" in shaping a new historical picture of the world
and their homeland. Villy Brandt's Eastern policy, Hustav Heinmann's school
initiatives, George Kizinger's dark past, and Richard von Weizsekker's speech sped up
deep understanding of the alarming situation in the country related to the understanding
of the inhumane nature of the Nazi dictatorship and the danger of its oblivion. The
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