With the discussion of education, the next part of German identity associated with the Holocaust comes with adult German citizenship. Germans who have been influenced their entire education on the Holocaust, how do they feel about their identity as German adults? One of the most complex and ambiguous discussions is that on German citizens feelings of identity. Being born in a nation, that in it’s past was a perpetrator of the Holocaust, has been studied as being complex and varying from citizen to citizen. This complexity and contradictions, studies when interviewing average German citizens, is the basis for understanding Germans feeling of self. What was discovered is that most of the discussions on German pride, or lack their of steams directly…show more content… Totschlag-Argument is a common figure of speech for the German past. In this context it is referring to the conscripted end-all that comes when bringing up the Holocaust that many Germans associate with. Totschlag-Argument poses a threat for modern Germans to become guilty again, as if they are no different from the Germans who committed the Holocaust 72 years ago (similar to the Goldhagen debate). Dr. Lisa Kreig, cultural, social anthropologist, focuses on how the topic of the Holocaust in contemporary Germany is conceived as an almost human-like entity, that conspires feelings of guilt, controls political discussions, and dictates discussions. This “narrative of agency” is perceived and imagined as a threat in many Germans lives and a way to indoctrinate feelings of guilt and continual reminding of the past. Through research conducted on young Germans, under 30, in Cologne, Germany, Dr. Krieg argues that the Holocaust in many German citizens is created into this humanly; agency power that creates emotionally charged discourse with the memory of the National Socialist past (13). Many of the Germans interviewed felt that once the Holocaust is brought up in discussion, it’s a lose-lose for them. Farther in the interview the Krieg points out how one women interviewed referred to the Holocausts as “es” or it. Another interviewer described the Holocaust as a weapon that someone can use intentionally, backing Germans into right-wing associated corners . Many scholars refer to the attributing special powers to the Holocaust impact on German people. Olick and Levy (1997: 922) pointed out that the Holocaust constrains German political culture as an almost mythical taboo, though it is often unclear what exactly the threat is that is associated with the Holocaust and the Nazi-Keule or Nazi-Cruse. However, by turning the Holocaust into such a powerful entity,
