Angela Merkel's historic decision in the summer of 2015 electrified German society and polarized the country like never since the Weimar Republic. Over a million immigrants divided Germany into two ideological civil war factions, with tensions increasingly escalating. Has the Chancellor definitively proven with her historic gesture of welcome that Germany has come to terms with its dark past? Or are she and many other German elites acting in the shadow of historical trauma? In his book, Raymond Unger - himself affected by transgenerational trauma - once again addresses the effects of unprocessed war traumas on subsequent generations. The focus is on the baby boomer elites, who, due to a lack of personal maturity and unprocessed guilt and atonement complexes, struggle with their descendants.