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

At the end of the Second World War many Germans found themselves in the unfamiliar role of being incriminated, attacked and persecuted. Presenting themselves before Allied denazification hearings, many more were put on trial and condemned as active supporters and accomplices of the Nazi regime. But while many of them managed to unburden themselves of their guilt, a small group had to face a reality which most Germans were spared: these were the children of the leading Nazi figures, who, as bearers of execrated names, faced a lifetime forever scarred by the actions of their fathers. My Father's Keeper is their story. In 1959 Nobert Lebert visited these men and women in their early twenties, and forty years later, his son Stephan renewed contact, to discover how their lives had developed under the burden of their family name... An absorbing read, told with sympathy and discretion...