knabenjahre

"In my parent's house we weren't allowed
to show feelings, neither pain nor joy;
duty for duty's sake, the nation over the
individual, discipline and authority, that
was my world.“ Four men born in the
nineteen-twenties speak with director
Peter Voigt back in 1989 about a childhood
spent during the era of National Socialism
and how naturally they had internalised
the values of discipline and commitment
to duty, often joyfully following the Nazi
ideology in the process. The resulting emotional
vacuum was easily filled by a sense
of community and fascist romanticism.