Vanishing Holocaust generation puts Germany on the spot Renowned for its relentless confrontation of the Nazi past, Germany faces new 21st-Century challenges to its culture of remembrance, as survivors of World War II and the Holocaust disappear and far-right politics reemerges. Born in 1938, less than two years before his parents fled Europe for the United States, Ralph Dannheisser grew up speaking German and praying for the survival of relatives left behind as World War II and the Holocaust savaged the Old Continent. Now, Dannheisser visits schools to pass knowledge of Germany's totalitarian past on to future generations. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES