Some things remain unanswered – including whether the research has changed her understanding of her own identity. She tries to link historical backgrounds with family stories. Until she decides to check her guilt: In order to enlighten herself and to relieve herself of the feelings of guilt, she tries to trace the life of several family members and put the individual pieces of the puzzle together: Can she find out how deeply the ideologies of the Nazis were ingrained in the minds of her family? Or were they actually good people? She begins with a few clues that grow into a large amount of information during her two years of research: she finds documents, reads diaries, looks at old photos. Even then, she wonders if it can make her feel a little less guilty. In her new home – New York City in America – she meets her husband and marries into his Jewish family. Her feelings of guilt are so extensive that she does not want to or cannot identify with her home country. In her graphic novel "Belonging", Nora Krug researches her family's role and what their actions during World War II meant for her own attachment to Germany: Her whole life is marked by guilt – she feels guilty for the Holocaust based on her nationality as a German.
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