Savaşın torunları: Travmatik belleğe kuşaklar ötesi bir bakış

This paper inquires into the relationships between transnational identity and war trauma from the perspective of the grandchildren with transnational identities. I will try to search how the war trauma experienced by German families participated in WWII played a role in identity formation and drifts of tendencies of their next generations. The paper is based on interviews done in Turkey in year 2015 on 45 individuals having mothers of German and fathers of Turkish origin. Survey also shows that German families try to hide their war memories containing experiences of Nazisism from their grandchildren. With an ultimate goal to come out strong form an era marked by war trauma, worth noting are the major changes inflicted by the family elders in forms of commuciations, in understandings of social status and class, possessions, inheritance and ownership patterns.The war generation which survive the war brings up the next generation according to these changes. Current generation perceives their elders’ stock of experiences as a legacy to be followed for their personal maturation. This paper argues that a war that actually might have ended 70 years ago will still cover a vast space in shared memory and still has an important role in constituting identities and habituses throughout new generations.