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My Father's Keeper: Children of Nazi Leaders -- An Intimate History of Damage and Denial
My Father's Keeper Children of Nazi Leaders An Intimate History of Damage and Denial
Author: Norbert Lebert, Stephan Lebert
In 1959 the German journalist Norbert Lebert conducted extensive interviews with the sons and daughters of prominent Nazis: Hess, Bormann, Goring, and Himmler; Baldur von Schirach, creator of the Hitler Youth; and Hans Frank, governor of Poland. Then at the beginning of their adult lives, Lebert's subjects were the bearers of notorious names...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780316519298
ISBN-10: 0316519294
Publication Date: 9/17/2001
Pages: 256
Edition: 1st Us
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Publisher: Little, Brown
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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First person interactions with some of the surviving children of major Nazis. The present author's father first interviewed several children in 1959. Decades later, the son has added his own followup interviews to those of his father. Sons and daughters bearing the names of Goering, von Shirach, Frank, and Himmler each grapple with their fathers -- and their fathers' times -- in their own ways, some more sympathetic to our thinking than others. One comes away from the book reflecting on the injustice (and perhaps inevitability) of "the sins of the fathers" impacts on their offspring.


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