Münster (ddp). One-third of the people born between 1930 and 1945 feels traumatized by war experiences, the remaining members of the war children’s generation are less heavily burdened by bombs, painful hikes, rape and threat. Researchers of the University of Münster, a survey found that. The education-related ability to help, and early binding experiences that have resulted in a higher confidence in people are crucial for the different assessment. The charged part of the war children’s generation experienced the memories currently in the process of aging intensively. The investigation, as contemporary experiences influence people and society, was performed in an interdisciplinary project of doctors and sociologists to Gereon HEUFT from the University of Münster.

The researchers surveyed 122 war children to the childhood. 90 or 80 percent of respondents had experienced shelling and bombing, a quarter of children country verschickt. More than half of each lost a close family member. «32 Percent of those polled felt heavily burdened by these events» psychotherapist Gudrun Schneider reported. «But conversely this means that the rest of no more than traumatic feels these situations.»

“One and the same event is experienced very differently and considered”, explains Matthias Grundmann sociologist. «Sometimes, experienced more the help which it has experienced by others, is in the foreground, or but, for example, a bombing as the starting point of a major disaster.» It is not possible to predict whether a Kriegsereignis become a heavy burden that life history implications.

Two factors play a role in the processing of events. «Upper layers have it always easier to settle again», Grundmann stresses the importance of the origin for the post-war period. «These people have better management pattern, greater knowledge, how you can help, and the better network experiences.» The medicine Schneider moves in addition early binding experiences at the Center. If you had been loved and developed confidence in other people, could more easily go through heavy situations with optimism and hope. «A weak personality is to exercise not the resources that has brought him his origin.» The two agree that an event as not so stressful is perceived when it is shared with others.

The traces of World War II is retire after the analysis of scientists to this day by the German company. This ranges from consumption patterns of the value of family and religious practice to big politics. So, one who has once experienced hunger, is more cautiously handle resources. And the former Chancellor Helmut Kohl has a secret of the fact never made, that his “Ostpolitik” also from the fact influenced was, that he has lost a brother in the war.

In the post-war period, but was the ousted collectively and not addressed, criticize scientists. You made in the reconstruction and had other concerns. Now, where the war children’s generation has to deal with ageing, some experience severely distressing memories again intensively. «We call this the so-called reactivation of trauma in the age», says Psychosomatiker Gereon HEUFT. «Some people can not accept ageing, because they feel helpless.» «And then the memory of situations where they felt as helpless, comes up again, even though they had 50 years no recognizable meaning.» The consequences can be anxiety and depression.