about public speeches and private silence by Birgit Rommelspacher Dr. Birgit Rommelspacher, a psychologist and a professor at Alice Salomon University in Berlin, is a second generation German, born after World War II. She has extensively researched anti-Semitism among younger Germans and published the results of this research project in a book, Schuldlos - Schuldig? Wie Sich Junge Frauen Mit Dem Antisemitismus Auseinandersetzen (Guilty - Not Guilty? How Young German Women Concern Themselves With Anti-Semitism), Konkret Literatur Verlag, Hamburg, 1997. This article was published in Die Tageszeitung on December 19, 1998, and addresses Martin Walsers speech two months earlier at the Frankfurt Book Fair in which Walser, a prominent German novelist, decried the Holocaust industry of memorials and commemoration. Rommelspacher brings a psychological analysis to Germans struggle with guilt and responsibility, and at the end of her article she writes about the most troubling aspect of Walsers speech -- the criticism of it from Ignatz Bubis, the leader of Germanys Jewish community. pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/germans/germans/speeches.html
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