landgericht

Question 1

the parents perspective

Answer 1

‘Kornitzer möchte nicht, dass seine Kinder die Angst sehen, das Entsetzen, aber er kann sie nicht fernhalten von den Umständen, unter
denen sie aufwachsen…’ p.268
- ‘Jetzt ist er entschlossen wegzugehen. Er will nicht, dass seine Kinder Verhaftungen und Überfälle auf unschuldige Menschen sehen. Er will nicht, dass sie sehen, auch ihr Vater wird
verschleppt.’ (p.269)

Question 2

wiedergutmachung

Answer 2

• post war justice for victims and those who were exiled
• restitution or proprty/ reperation
• early 1950s
• krechel views Landgericht as: ‘als personliche Wiedergutmachung einer misslungen Widergutmachung’ in der Bundesrepublik nach 1945

Question 3

post war germany

Answer 3

• Lindau and Mainz
• in 1948 Kornitzer returns as a ‘Displaces Person’, no german citizenship
• wishes to rebuild germany democratically but struggles
• corrupt, biased system
• sees that the existing law is unjust
• struggles against the system

Question 4

personal struggle

Answer 4

• has to fight harder than others that were members of the NSDAP
• ## feelings of guitl- wife in cuba

Question 5

richard and claires relationship

Answer 5

-his obsession and fixation on a legal way to fix or make up for the past only firthers the rifts between them
- he believes if a country wont face its past there will be no democray

Question 6

work and personal life

Answer 6

• Richard finds it diffcult to seperate work and life
• he seems bringing selma back as their right and the court orders selma to come back