LTThe title of this paper ought to be further defined: history is understood here as a set of circumstances in which people find themselves regardless of their will and wishes, rather than as a scholarly discipline. The assumption is made that certain actions performed in respect to these people could have grave and sometimes irreversible psychological consequences. Since the author is not a psychologist, she can only discuss these effects at the level of hypotheses which are borne out by the recollections of the people who suffered violence. [p. 13].