My Father's Keeper : How Nazis' Children Grew Up With Parents' Guilt - Softcover

Stephan Lebert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349114579 ISBN 13: 9780349114576

Publisher: Abacus, 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

NORBERT LEBERT worked as journalist and freelance writer in Munich after WW2. His son, STEPHAN LEBERT, was born in 1961 and is managing editor of TAGES-SPIEGEL in Berlin. He has been awarded the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About this edition

• Publisher: Abacus
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0349114579
• ISBN 13: 9780349114576
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224