While it is sensible that governments and academics endeavour to assess the effectiveness of counterterrorism policies, this article argues that it is almost impossible to measure arithmetically the outcome of counterterrorism efforts for a variety of reasons. However, this does not mean that the effect of governmental policy cannot and should not be assessed. This article argues that it is not necessarily the policy measures and their intended results as such, but much more the way in which they are presented and perceived, that determine the overall effect of the policy in question.

De bombardementen door de geallieerden hebben een stevig stempel gedrukt op de Duitse samenleving. In een veel bredere mate dan vaak gedacht wordt, vormden deze geallieerde bombardementen een belangrijk onderdeel van de debatten in Duitsland over de Tweede Wereldoorlog. In zowel de DDR als de Bondsrepubliek v+¦+¦r en na 1990 werd deze luchtoorlog een onderwerp van publiek en politiek belang, alsmede een belangrijk onderdeel van de Duitse geschiedschrijving. Bas von Benda-Beckmann analyseert de Duitse geschiedschrijving sinds 1945, over de geallieerde bombardementen.

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“Camp is not so much a place as a condition. “I’ve had camp,” he says. That makes him different from us. We’ve had chicken pox and German measles. And after Simon fell out of a tree, he got concussion and he had to stay in bed for weeks. But we never had camp.“

- Nightfather, Carl Friedman; novel about a man’s experiences in the Nazi concentration camps as seen through the eyes of his children -

In a series of meta-analyses with the second generation of Holocaust survivors, no evidence for secondary traumatization was found (Van IJzendoorn, Bakermans-Kranenburg, & Sagi-Schwartz, 2003 With regard to third generation traumatization, various reports suggest the presence of intergenerational transmission of trauma. Some scholars argue that intergenerational transmission of trauma might skip a generation.