Following Germany’s reunification, victims and villains alike wanted to forget the country’s past. And this, for everyone, required privacy. “I’ve jokingly talked about the privacy tree: It’s brown and it has green leaves,” said historian Konrad H. Jarausch, referring to Nazis (brown) and Leftists (green). “It has some remnants of the Third Reich stuff — people who have family records or other things that they don’t want known. But at the same time, the leading lights in the Left were students in the 1970s, and they were engaged in all sorts of crazy communist groups, Marxist groups and so on … .”
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Search History: Google and Germany, Part 2
Posted by: David Vranicar July 13, 2011 05:00 AMFollowing Germany’s reunification, victims and villains alike wanted to forget the country’s past. And this, for everyone, required privacy. “I’ve jokingly talked about the privacy tree: It’s brown and it has green leaves,” said historian Konrad H. Jarausch, referring to Nazis (brown) and Leftists (green). “It has some remnants of the Third Reich stuff — people who have family records or other things that they don’t want known. But at the same time, the leading lights in the Left were students in the 1970s, and they were engaged in all sorts of crazy communist groups, Marxist groups and so on … .”