My mother's abusive behaviour

I think that the secret to understanding why my mother is so abusive is to realise that she was abused herself as a child before ww2 by the government regime in Germany. It took a whole generation for all of the abuse she suffered to surface from her personality but she expessed this abuse by abusing her children and everyone around her. She was an awful mother. All my childhood friends all said without exception that she was horrible. And she drove my father to drink after stealing the inheritance of her children. But there was at least a psychological reason for her behaviour. She had been abused herself by society in general in Germany when she was a child. Shallom.