Antonovsky introduced the term “salutogenesis” as a covering concept for factors supporting the maintainance and/or restitution of health. In a salutogenetic perspective, the questions of what causes disease (pathogenesis) is of lesser importance than the question of what maintains health (salutogenesis) . As early as in the 1970s James P. Henry postulated a direct connection between coronary heart disease and chronic stress [71–73]. Henry’s original hypotheses have been modified considerably e.g. to the framework of the allostatic load model which describes the health impact of stress and stressful/traumatic events over the life span [74–76]. However, the fundamental assumption that chronic stress has the potential to lead to chronic disease, or at least has a negative impact on the course of chronic disease, is generally accepted. The role of trauma and especially collective trauma has received wide interest, in particular in connection with the allostatic load model. This model predicts that it is the accumulation of stressful events that may lead to a higher vulnerability for disease, such as Alzheimers disease in old age .