“Europe has always been a place of refugees, genocide and war. You feel it still in the monuments to the dead, the slaughtered, the murdered. The Fields of Flanders, the holocaust memorials, the graveyards.”
Marianne Thamm, May 2018, from Mother Tongues: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-05-02-antjie-krog-on-how-afrikaans-and-the-south-can-enrich-dutch-and-the-north/#.WuleUjPTU0M