Another day of commemoration, and therefore an occasion to present the famous play about the “good return” of non-Jewish Germans on the stage of the German Memorial Theater. The late historian and publicist Eike Geisel coined this perhaps ironic but true word to refer to Germany’s much-vaunted culture of memory. On the anniversary of the nationwide massacres that took place on the night of November 10, 1938, politicians in the federal, state and local governments, as well as in the city and districts of Dachau, will state, as in previous years, state: Never again!” But the glow is gone.
