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samidhak 's review for:
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
by Nora Krug
The art work is stunning! I really like the pastiche and scrap-booky way the author has used for her graphic memoir. However, the charm ends there - I could NOT read any more of her whinnying about her heritage. Some of the sentences like - “even marrying a Jewish man hasn’t lessened my German shame” or “my Jewish friends often tell me what Americans did to Indigenous tribes was equal or far worse”. Are you seriously comparing which genocide is better than the other? I couldn’t stomach how insensitive the author sounded at times; using “Jewish” people as a way to show how Germans have become better? And honestly, I can’t care any less about how she feels when people judge her for being a ‘German’ due to her country’s past and how she feels so self-conscious and insecure about it.
Something about the whole book rubbed me the wrong way. At one point the author mentions reading about the concentration camps in her school, and says “ But there were gaps in our education. We didn’t learn about the thousands of Germans that had been killed for resisting the Nazi Regime.”
Something about the whole book rubbed me the wrong way. At one point the author mentions reading about the concentration camps in her school, and says “ But there were gaps in our education. We didn’t learn about the thousands of Germans that had been killed for resisting the Nazi Regime.”