My mother's first memories are of the bombing of Dresden - of running to hide in bomb shelters, of seeing the results of bombs that shrunk people's bodies (one man she remembers was carrying two suitcases - one holding his dead wife and one his dead child), of smelling the horrible stench. She has suffered from anxiety her entire life. She has irritable bowel syndrome, OCD, and other anxiety disorders. Her older sister was for many years an alcoholic. The older sister had it worse because she was old enough to remember her father, who was killed fighting for Germany (and not willingly, he was conscripted). Do the people who elect a government bear any culpability? What if they're too young to vote? What if they're toddlers?