Cradle and Crucible of ‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung’: Representations of the War Child in the Occupation Period (1945–9). An Introduction1

The ‘lost child’ as figure of trauma and recovery in early post-war cinema: Fred Zinnemann’sThe Search(1948) and Natan Gross’Unzere Kinder(1948)

“…therefore neither responsible nor accountable for the crisis, lent itself to symbolic notions of innocence conveniently employed to negotiate shock and disillusion, disorientation and anxieties of the adult world or, more precisely, the parent and grandparent generation (Fisher 2007;Müller, Pinfold,;Wölfel 2016, 417-36). The symbolic value of children was particularly high in the case of so-called 'lost children' (Zahra 2001, 8), i.e.…”