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We struggled to understand the meaning of Heimat.
We learned that Vergangenheitsbewältigung means 'coming to terms with one's political past,' but felt that it really defined 'the process of struggling to come to terms' with it.
No matter how hard I look, a nagging sense of unease won't disappear. Perhaps the only way to find the HEIMAT that I've lost is to look back; to move beyond the abstract shame and ask those questions that are really difficult to ask - about my own hometown, about my father's and mother's families. To make my way back to the towns where each of them is from. To return to my childhood, go back to the beginning, follow the breadcrumbs, and hope they'll lead the way home.
Throughout my childhood, the war was present but unacknowledged, like the heirloom lion's-head tureen stored behind our usual dishware. I understood that THE WAR was a loud and deadly event and that it happened before my parents were born. I knew that my country refused the idea of engaging in war ever since THE WAR. I thought that there was nothing heroic or meaningful about being a soldier, and that preserving peace was paramount. The notion that other countries could still be at war seemed to me like madness.
How do you know who you are, if you don't understand where you come from?
Heimat - That term which defines the concept of an imaginarily developed, or actual landscape or location, with which a person associates an immediate sense of familiarity.
