What is it like to be a child of a criminal who killed millions of people? How to live with a surname that is synonymous with the worst evil? Can you love an executioner? Gerald Posner in his book "Children of Hitler" tries to find answers to these questions by giving the floor to the sons and daughters of leading Nazis.
Josef Mengele sends hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to the gas chambers. At the same time, he and his wife have their second honeymoon in Auschwitz. Hans Frank supervises the slaughter taking place in Poland. In the evenings he is a caring father and he practices the piano with his son for hours. In Nuremberg, Hermann Göring is waiting for the death penalty. From there, he writes letters full of love to his beloved daughter.
You can read about the lives of the leading Nazis from the point of view of their children in the book "Hitler's Children", published by Znak Horyzont publishing house.
Children of leading Nazis tell about their fathers for the first time. Some condemn the criminal activity of parents for the Third Reich, others try to justify it. They love and hate. They mix tenderness with disgust. Reports of crimes obscure idyllic childhood memories. However, only they can perceive humanity in those for whom we only see cruel sadists.