GEG 2108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nazi Germany, Checkpoint Charlie
27 Aug 2016
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Reconciliation is new in canada, but not in other parts of the world. A process of dealing with the past and returning to some kind of balanced or normal relations after a con ict between people of different religions, cultures, races, etc. The point is not to eliminate one truth over the other, but nd the space that they share. Nd an atmosphere where you can acknowledge and honour that someone else has had a different experience than you. Open and willing to nd compromise, not about changing or forgetting the past. Understand that there are alternate realities different than your own. They had to recover from nazism, from the iii reich. Cant forget their past, they must acknowledge it and reconcile. Vergangenheitsbew ltigung: vergangenheit : past , bew ltigung: a conceptual word meaning overcoming the negative, the guilt, metal injuries . This reconciliation had not been done after world war i, which justi ed hitler, world.
