Transgenerational Trauma? The Uses and Abuses of a Concept in Postwar Germany - Jan Plamper

Please join Jan Plamper, Professor of History, online for his Rutgers Distinguished Lecture in European History on 'Transgenerational Trauma? The Uses and Abuses of a Concept in Postwar Germany'. Register for this Zoom event on December 3, 2021, 7-8.30pm Irish time: https://go.rutgers.edu/lbdzvu9y

Abstract: Non-Jewish Germans born around 1968 increasingly see themselves as reliving the World War Two traumas their grandparents were not allowed to mourn – of Allied bombardments, forced migrations, and mass rapes. Here, they turn to the concept of transgenerational trauma. In his lecture, Jan Plamper presents a genealogy and critique of the concept, detailing how it has prepared the ground for the emergence of a “Psycho-Right,” a loose alliance between traditionally leftist psychotherapy milieux and the Neue Rechte (New Right).