The paper sketches the impossibility to tell stories without interfering with collective memory. By focussing on examples that refer to Nazi-Germany, the process of mythisation of historical issues is explained. Genrally, there is no escape from mythisation of figures in popular storytelling: All dealings with specific topics are influenced by the usage of related symbols and the establishment of certain theme-derived stereotypes. To explain e.g. historical living conditions and the erosion and perversion of social values in Nazi-Germany and similar racist-chauvinistic ideologies becomes more and more difficult as one has to contradict firmly established stereotypes and patterns of storytelling.