In many places in Germany, there are now memorials for the victims of National Socialism. History and crimes are no longer silenced, yet there is cause for concern about our political culture: a large part of the German population seems to be uninterested in further engagement with the National Socialist past. Too often, attempts are made to level the events of that time, to place them in historical context, and finally to draw a line under them. Forgetting, repression, denial, relativization, and also cover-ups are elements of a syndrome in societal attitudes towards dealing with the past. The editors of this anthology belong to a post-war generation, for whom the words of former Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker in his speech on the 40th anniversary of liberation hold true.