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How Germany Remembers the Holocaust

Radio Atlantic

The Atlantic

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.32.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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What can memorials to tragedy in one country tell Americans about how to remember the legacy of slavery in the U.S.? Staff writer Clint Smith traveled to Germany to understand how Germany memorializes the Holocaust. He discusses what he saw and the perspectives he encountered with fellow staff writer Caitlin Dickerson, and explains why his experience of several German memorials makes the daunting task of memorializing slavery in the United States seem achievable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So what did you expect to find in Germany?

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I mean, were you essentially going to pick up lessons for the US?

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Were you starting to become a little bit skeptical of Germany

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as this ideal for reckoning and atonement?

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I mean, what did you have in mind as you set out on this trip?

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I think in part, I went to Germany to put it in conversation

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with the process of the memorialization here in the United States.

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