TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - "And she turns around and sees it fully …" Psychological consequences in children of survivors of the "Hamburg Firestorm" (1943) in a systematic evaluation
JO  - Zeitschrift fur Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie
A1  - Lamparter, Ulrich
A1  - Holstein, Christa
A1  - Nickel, Stefan
A1  - Wendell, Astrid
SP  - 468
EP  - 485
VL  - 67
IS  - 4
N2  - "And she turns around and sees it fully …" Psychological consequences in children of survivors of the "Hamburg Firestorm" (1943) in a systematic evaluation Objectives: Is there a transmission of traumatic war experiences through the generations? In an interdisciplinary research project at Hamburg University psychoanalysts and historians investigated the long-term psychological effects of World War II bombing attacks in the "Hamburg Firestorm" (Operation Gomorrha) in 1943. In the frame of this work the paper asks for the psychological consequences in the following generation Methods: Evaluation of 45 completely transcribed life-historical interviews (28 female and 17 male of an average age of 50.2 years) with descendants of contemporary witnesses (at the time of the firestorm between 3 and 27 years old) by systematic diagnostic assessment. <br><br>RESULTS: There are no certain consequences for everyone. Most of the consequences occurred, when the mother was the contemporary witness and the child the daughter. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Different assessments on the intergenerational consequences of experiences of violence in World War II can be explained by the heterogeneity of the findings.<p />  <p>Language: de</p>
LA  - de
SN  - 1438-3608
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.13109/zptm.2021.67.4.468
ID  - ref1
ER  -