D’s story

D’s story (50s)

And I think that in the micro you can work much more surgically, much more, in detail, much more humanly. Because, of course, if not, the only thing we have left, because we have lost almost all the direct witnesses, the only thing we have left is the archival

material, the files.

But of course, those files are from the winners. So everything that is explained there, both the trials, what was said, everything is subversion. Their terminology, why they justified that such a man had to be killed. Because he has done I don’t know what. You talk to the people of the town.

And I really think that, for example, I inherited the trauma from my mother. Because she knew perfectly well what her grandfather had done.

And she still lives it as a great shame. So we have never talked about the war. And how are you not going to talk about something that has affected my mother, and all her family.