What memories do perpetrators of violence transmit to their offspring? While most studies on intergenerational memory focus on victims, we look at how ingroup perpetrators selectively remember the past and how this affects younger generations. The nature of what individuals remember about the past depends on both transmission within the family and societal memory regimes. Germany offers an ideal context to understand how groups historically involved in violence transmit experiences across generations, as the partition into East and West after WWII created two distinct memory cultures. We conduct an intergenerational survey to capture how different generations describe the experiences of relatives involved in WWII as soldiers, studying similarities in narratives within families. To understand the effect of remembrance, we plan to field a survey experiment to test how being prompted to recall family as opposed to collective memories of a group’s violent history influences democratic and nationalistic attitudes.