I think this is a little bit getting carried away.
The suit says the second generation grew up “in the shadow of depression, grief and guilt of their parents, which created a powerful inclination among the children for pain and suffering.”
Children had a “twisted relationship with their parents” that impeded their development and led to severe psychological problems, the suit claims.
One 58-year-old woman told her story to Israel Radio Sunday, saying she inherited the fear of starvation experienced by her parents in Auschwitz, where inmates prized any crust of bread they could obtain.
“If you come to my house and open the freezer, loaves of bread fall on you, without any proportion to what I really need,” the woman said.
She declined to disclose her name, but Mazor said she spoke for thousands.
She said she felt as if she had no childhood, and jumped directly into adolescence. The feeling conveyed by her father was: “I went through hell, and what you are going through is nothing,” she said.
Others of the second generation say they cannot ride buses because it reminds them of the transports their parents took to the concentration camps, or they fear dogs because they were used by the Nazis to control crowds.
Mazor said the Fisher Fund held lengthy negotiations with the German Embassy over the compensation claims, but the talks were cut off by the Germans.
You know...life is...
Many people suffered horribly in WWII. My mom tried to be a teenager in a town overrun by German, Black Shirts and then Americans. Many died. Europe starved after the war and she starved with them. She spent years in a psychiatric ward.
I would no more think of suing someone for the fall out from her trauma related behaviors than I would think of flying to the moon.
Wonderful - and when do we bring the first communist to trial for the deaths of 100 million in the last century?
Nobody sued Germany in 1949.
If it’s only spent on psychiatric care, that seems reasonable. I can’t see giving out cash.
“...against the German government...”
How’s that possible? I thought we defeated the Nazi’s 60 years ago. Did they all come back?
This is ridiculous.
As much as I like Jews I have to think that this horse needs to be allowed to decay away.
Nobody ever sued GDR (East Germany.)
Doesn’t Israel have any government-paid psychiatric services?
Americans should be able to sue all Imams for the distress that they have caused by promoting hatred of ‘infidels’. We should also be able to sue them for all of the cost of our defenses against possible attacks. It’s an outrage that they are able to continue building bigger and more mosques while our tax money is spent, and our freedoms abrogated, to defend us from their hate speech.
Parents bring children into the world and raise them. I’m sure it was trying and emotionally difficult for their children at times, but I don’t believe Germany can be held liable for the psychological well-being of all these children. It’s akin to my argument against reparations for slavery.
Besides, a precedent could lead to payments into perpetuity, as long as stories are passed down through generations.