This article deals with the question of why, after the Allies liberated the (former) National Socialist Volksgemeinschaft (People’s Community) in 1945, the Federal Republic failed to become a community of responsibility and how the collective denial of reality in Germany, which continues today, can be explained. Moreover, a key issue for me is the question of the biographical after-effects of the Holocaust on the children and grandchildren (“emotional legacies”) of the birth cohorts shaped by German fascism. I present forms of biographical remembrance work that include both the descendants of the victims and of the perpetrators as a possible option for a future culture of remembrance.