There was a time when I wrote down my war memories – just to throw them away. I wanted to get rid of all the terrible and forget it. Who should have been interested in it?
(Translation of the original German version. Anonymous, * 1932, Germany)
Why do war traumatised people think nobody would be interested in what they had suffered and that they accordingly should modestly and in secret try to master everything on their own?
Would it not be more useful to give other people a chance to learn from their experience without being forced to make those lessons of life on their own?
There will be some more on the topic “war and flight- back than and nowadays”. Could it be that our local elder population have something in common with the refugees from other regions of the world fleeing into our areas?