My father's keeper
Subtitle: children of Nazi leaders : an intimate history of damage and denial
By: by Stephan and Norbert Lebert ; translated by Julian Evans.
Contributors: Lebert, Stephan, 1961-
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Children of Nazis -- Germany.; National socialism -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Conflict of generations -- Germany.; Guilt.
Description: "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 that made them outcasts to some, symbols of a lost glory to others.".

"Forty years later, Lebert's son Stephan - also a journalist - tracked down these same men and women to find out what had become of them, how they remembered their fathers, and what effect the names they carried had on the paths they had taken. Lebert's account of his conversations, juxtaposed with his father's postwar interviews, gives us an extraordinary and unflinching look at how these individuals have coped with a horrifying heritage.".

"The stories that emerge are fascinating, surprising, and often disturbing: The young man who refuses military service and is granted conscientious objector status on the grounds that his father is imprisoned by the state - as a Nazi war criminal. The boy who begins his education learning the principles of fascism, finishes it at a Catholic boarding school, and later becomes a priest and a missionary to Africa.

The woman who was systematically refused work because she wouldn't use an alias, but who now lives in the suburbs under her husband's name and keeps secret contacts with other nostalgic Nazis. The journalist who writes a scathing magazine article reviling the father responsible for two million deaths, and is greeted with a barrage of letters from outraged Germans - whatever your father may have done, the letters argue, fathers must always be honored."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: For You Bear My Name; title: The 1959 Manuscript: Wolf-Riidiger Hess; title: Who Were the Fathers?; title: The 1959 Manuscript: Wolf-Riidiger Hess and; title: the Nazi Women; title: On a Home Page the Story Continues; title: The 1959 Manuscript: Martin Bormann Junior; title: A Priest Offers a Warning about the Future; title: The 1959 Manuscript: Niklas and Norman Frank; title: A Man Wants to Destroy His Father; title: The 1959 Manuscript: Gudrun Himmler; title: An Embittered Daughter and the; title: Not-Wanting-to-See Principle; title: The 1959 Manuscript: Edda G6ring; title: A Sightseeing Tour of Munich in the Year 2000; title: The 1959 Manuscript: The von Schirach Brothers; title: A Final Meeting with the Lawyer; title: Afterword.