Barnes & NobleThose Who Forget- My Family's Story in Nazi Europe - A Memoir, A History, A Warning by Geraldine Schwarz

Makes the very convincing case that, until and unless there is a full accounting for what happened with Donald Trump, 2020 is not over and never will be. The New Yorker Riveting we can never be reminded too often to never forget. The Wall Street Journal Journalist Géraldine Schwarz's astonishing memoir of her German and French grandparent's lives during World War II also serves as a perceptive look at the current rise of far-right nationalism throughout Europe and the US (Publishers Weekly). During World War II, Géraldine Schwarz's German grandparents were neither heroes nor villains, they were merely Mitlaüfer those who followed the current. Once the war ended, they wanted to bury the past under the wreckage of the Third Reich. Decades later, while delving through filing cabinets in the basement of their apartment building in Mannheim, Schwarz discovers that in 1938, her paternal grandfather Karl took advantage of Nazi policies to buy a business from a Jewish family for a low price. She finds letters from the only survivor of this family (all the others perished in Auschwitz), demanding reparations. But Karl Schwarz refused to acknowledge his responsibility. Géraldine starts to question the past- How guilty were her grandparents? What makes us complicit? On her mother's side.