sort of - your suggestion is not bad at all. "In Germany, a degree of guilt continues to drive its people’s ongoing involvement in this national legacy" Basically, although most of the people alive in Germany today had nothing whatsoever to do with the holocaust (most were born after the event), there is a sense of shame in that, as a people, they were either unaware of what was going on, didn't realise the extent of it, or just looked the other way. The feeling is that this should never happen again and it gets talked about a lot, to avoid it being forgotten.