With reference to central passages of an interview with a Jewish woman from the second generation, the author of “On the Transmission of the Trauma of the National Socialist Extermination of the Jews” focuses first on the content side of the dispute about the transmission of the trauma of the National Socialist extermination of the Jews. The author then proceeds to pinpoint various rationalization strategies generated in connection with Nazi persecution: the allegation of a “pact of silence on both sides,” a negation of difference between victims and perpetrators, the construction of a form of “complicity” between victims and perpetrators, the allegation of kinship between victims and perpetrators, the attempt to “therapeutize”