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Analyzing literature and films on the family relationships of refugees, political prisoners, Stasi informants, and Nazi perpetrators, we will study the psychic afterlives of fascist, totalitarian, or authoritarian regimes (Nazi Germany, GDR, Turkey). We will discover experiences and stories that are often not told in the family but nevertheless handed down across generations in powerful and often distorted ways. Drawing on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and psychosociology, we will discuss how the need to keep quiet meets the need to talk and to hear.