Grandad wasn't a Nazi - or maybe he was? - Workshop on family stories

The two-day workshop is aimed at anyone who is interested in the role of their family in National Socialism and teaches them how to find answers with the help of archive research. To what extent were family members involved in National Socialism - as active perpetrators, convinced fellow travellers or passive bystanders? Were they persecuted and victims of the Holocaust or did they resist? Archives can provide answers. The workshop will show which archives come into question and how to make enquiries.  In addition: What can you learn from letters or photos and what can actually be seen on them? How do you conduct and analyse interviews with contemporary witnesses? After all, memories can be deceptive. What is the aim of your own research and what should the result be? How do you maintain an overview?  The speaker questioned her own family's past. In the process, she learnt completely unknown facts, victim stories turned into their opposite, answers were found and stories were told to the end. Her grandfathers, like millions of other Germans, voluntarily joined the NSDAP shortly after the transfer of power. After the war, an uncle married into a Jewish family in which family members had been murdered in the Holocaust. What she discovered were not spectacular stories, but quite ordinary ones, as can be found in many German families.