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Book Review of My Father's Keeper: Children of Nazi Leaders -- An Intimate History of Damage and Denial

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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.