Grandpa wasn't a Nazi - or maybe he was? - Family history workshop

The two-day workshop is aimed at anyone who asks about their family's role in National Socialism and teaches how to find answers with the help of archival research. To what extent were family members involved in National Socialism - as active perpetrators, convinced followers 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 you can make inquiries. Aside from that: What do you learn from letters or photos and what can actually be seen in them? How do you conduct contemporary witness interviews and evaluate them? Because memory and memory can be deceptive. What is the goal of your own research and what should its result be? How do you keep track? The speaker asked about her own family's past. She learned something completely unknown, victim stories turned into their opposite, answers could be found and stories could be told to the end. Their 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, but rather ordinary stories that can be found in many German families.