Institute for Continuing Professional Development

Prof. Dr. W. Michael Blumenthal
Direktor des Jüdischen Museums Berlin

"Jews in Germany Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"

The nice and admirable fact is that this generation, the post-68 generation, at last has faced up to the past; that there is now a whole network of institutions in the Federal Republic which are facing up to the past; that people say, let us not sweep anything under the carpet, let us tell our children open-mindedly in order to learn that Jews were not only victims but ordinary German citizens, bright or stupid, fat or slim, rich or poor, like all the others.