According to Friedrich, it is difficult for us to recognize the Hitler in ourselves, and it has been especially difficult for German psychoanalysis to take historical responsibility for what happened under the Nazis. During the 1950's and 1960's, psychoanalysis in Germany fled the past by moving forward and promoting psychoanalysis in extremely rigid and orthodox forms. Only in the 1980's were voices heard calling for analyzing together the unconscious identifications with the Nazi introject. According to Friedrich it is necessary for psychoanalysis to analyze countertransference, to accept openly all projections onto one another, and to expand our tolerance for pain and anxiety in order to deepen the understanding of the second and third generations of both survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust.