Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others- Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy

Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others- Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy

Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others- Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy

Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others- Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy

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The Fascinating Story of Eight Children of Third Reich Leaders and their Journey from Descendants of Heroes to Descendants of Criminals

In 1940, the German sons and daughters of great Nazi dignitaries Himmler, Göring, Hess, Frank, Bormann, Höss, Speer, and Mengele were children of privilege at four, five, or ten years old, surrounded by affectionate, all-powerful parents. Although innocent and unaware of what was happening at the time, they eventually discovered the extent of their father's occupations: These men—their fathers who were capable of loving their children and receiving love in return—were leaders of the Third Reich, and would later be convicted as monstrous war criminals. For these children, the German defeat was an earth-shattering source of family rupture, the end of opulence, and the jarring discovery of Hitler's atrocities.

How did the offspring of these leaders deal with the aftermath of the war and the skeletons that would haunt them forever? Some chose to disown their past. Others did not. Some condemned their fathers; others worshiped them unconditionally to the end. In this enlightening book, which has been translated into eleven languages, Tania Crasnianski examines the responsibility of eight descendants of Nazi notables, caught somewhere between stigmatization, worship, and amnesia. By tracing the unique experiences of these children, she probes at the relationship between them and their fathers and examines the idea of how responsibility for the fault is continually borne by the descendants.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781628728088
Publisher: Arcade
Publication date: 02/06/2018
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 264
Sales rank: 810,391
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Tania Crasnianski was born in France of a German mother and French-Russian father. Children of Nazis is her first book. She is a criminal lawyer and lives in Germany, London, and New York.

Molly Grogan is a cultural journalist, educator, and translator who has written extensively on Francophone postcolonial literature and modern theater in Europe and North America. She holds a PhD in French and comparative literatures from the Sorbonne and a master’s in linguistics from the Université Paris V René Descartes.
 
Tania Crasnianski was born in France of a German mother and French-Russian father. Children of Nazis is her first book. She is a criminal lawyer and lives in Germany, London, and New York.
Molly Grogan holds a Ph.D in French and Comparative Literatures from the Sorbonne and a Masters in Linguistics from the Université Paris V René Descartes. She has written extensively on postcolonial literature and theater. She is a translator, journalist and educator working in France, the United States, the United Kingdom and China.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Regarding Translations ix

Introduction xi

Gudrun Himmler: Nazism's "Poppet" 1

Edda Göring: The Little Princess of "The Nero of Nazi Germany" 25

Wolf R. Hess: A Life in the Shadow of the Last of the War Criminals 51

Niklas Frank: A Hunger for the Truth 75

Martin Adolf Bormann Jr.: The "Crown Prince" 103

The Höss Children: The Family of the Kommandant of Auschwitz 123

The Speer Children: Offspring of "The Devil's Architect" 147

Rolf Mengele: The Son of "The Angel of Death" 171

Conclusion: A German Story? 193

Notes 201

Sources from Archives 219

Bibliography 223

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