My Fathers Keeper: The Children of Nazi Leaders - An Intimate History of Damage and Denial: How Nazis Children Grew Up with Parents Guilt
My Fathers Keeper: The Children of Nazi Leaders - An Intimate History of Damage and Denial: How Nazis Children Grew Up with Parents Guilt
Stephan Lebert
* Introduction by Daniel Goldhagen, author HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS.
* With TV series such as Hitler's Henchman, The World at War, Hitler's Women - interest in WWII has never been higher.
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Summary
There are and always have been ways of escaping one's own past. But there are some who have never had this chance: the children of prominent Nazis. On one hand they have the memories of the nice, kind man who was their father, on the other they are confronted with the facts of history: with the madness, the murders, the personal purgatory. The Leberts, father and son, spoke at an interval of forty years - 1959 and 1999 - to these men and women who bore a tainted name and were crushed by the burden of the past: Gudrun Himmler - 75, runs a network for old Nazis in Munich, denies her father did anything wrong; Martin Boorman (junior) - 70, believes his father was a monster; Etta Goring - 70, will hear no bad word about her father; Nicholas Frank (father was in charge of Auschwitz) believes his father was the incarnation of evil. The result is a series of snapshots of rare intensity and a demonstration of how these destinies have more to do with the twenty-first century than many would care to think.
Product Description
Title - My Fathers Keeper: The Children of Nazi Leaders - An Intimate History of Damage and Denial: How Nazis Children Grew Up with Parents Guilt
Edition -
Author - Stephan Lebert
ISBN 13 - 9780349114576
Imprint - Abacus
Publisher - Little, Brown Book Group
Date Published - 04/07/2002
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No. of pages -
Binding Type - Paperback
Dimensions - 126 x 198 x 15mm
Weight - 168 g
Languages - English