![]() “If I had stayed in Germany, I would have never thought of writing this book,” she says over a coffee in a beer garden in central Berlin. ![]() The task of Vergangenheitsbewältigung, of coming to terms with the National Socialist era, is in Germany mainly associated with the literature and films of Krug’s parents’ generation. ![]() It is a surprising mission for a writer born in 1977. Krug’s memoir Heimat: A German Family Album seeks to wade through this moral quagmire, what she calls the “grey zone of war”, full of “people you can neither classify as resistance fighters or as victims, nor as war criminals”. Heimat: A German Family Album by Nora Krug Illustration: Nora Krug ![]()
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