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This review article aims to decipher the meaning of the memories by the children of the nazi perpetrators, the publication of which is now in fashion in Germany, and to show the way, how the historical science should intervene in the private remembering of the Holocaust and contribute to healing of the traumas, the nazi children have suffered from. By reviewing the works by the concerned psychologists such as Dan Bar-On, Harald Welzer, Christian Schneider, Gabriele Rosenthal and Tilmann Moser did the author arrive at the following insights. The intergenerational remembering of the perpetrator family leads usually to transforming the perpetrator into a hero who opposed allegedly the nazi dictatorship or helped the threatened jews, and into a victim who was allegedly oppressed by the nazi authorities. But the silence of the past crime can not but producing a family member burdened with extreme psychological problems. They redeem on behalf of their ancestor, commit sometimes suicide. Traumas could be healed only by revealing the crime unmistakably and recognizing the simple fact that the nursing father and the evil criminal can be embodied in the one and the same person. The author argues that the historical science can contribute to healing the traumas by writing historical narratives which are free of a bipolar opposition of the good and the evil, and appealing emotionally to the reading public.
