| Nazikinder
"In the autumn of 1947 she travelled to Bielefeld and applied for admission to the town's fashion and design school.
'What's you name?'
'Gudrun Himmler.'
'Your father's profession?'
'My father was the Reichsführer-SS...' "
That's an excerpt from another gem I discovered at the local library, My Father's Keeper by Stephan and Norbert Lebert, original title Du Denn Trägst Meinen Namen.
In 1959, German journalist Norbert Lebert conducted interviews with sons and daughters of several prominent Nazis. Forty years later, his son Stephen set out to contact these same people to discover what had become of them, and how their lives had progressed. His book juxtaposes the two sets of interviews.
This is a fascinating and informative work about what it is like to go through life with the name Wolf-Rüdiger Hess, Edda Göring, Niklas Frank, Martin Borman Jr., Gudrun Himmler, or Robert von Schirach.
JT
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