“It is not about remembrance.
It is about the awareness of a danger that one has been aware of ever since one became aware of it.
Since one realized that it had been an illusion to believe that the civilizing process was irreversible —
and therefore knows that this danger will remain ever-present.
And it is about something I would call a shame that reaches into the anthropological substance.
A shame that, detached from the question of guilt, seizes anyone who allows themselves to be seized.”
— Jan Philipp Reemtsma
Social Scientist
in: “Wozu Gedenkstätten?”, Mittelweg 36, April/May 2004, p. 62
