Norbert Lebert (1929–1993)

The children of the leading Nazis are an incredibly intriguing phenomenon; are they products of their parents or have they been able to make a clean break from the past - or some combination of the two? This narrative, written by a father and son, consists of interviews occurring during the children's 20s and then 40 years later. It attemps to chronicle the evolution of these people, and to use them as a showcase of how the German people have dealt with their Nazi past. I am not sure that it show more was an entirely successful narrative, since I found the flow to be a bit disjointed and the tone to be far too speculative, but it was none the less an informative read. show less

Fascinating yet rough. Norbet Lebert interviewed the children of famous Nazi Leaders in 1959 and the interviews were published in a German magazine to mixed reactions. His son, Stephan, revisted the articles with attempts at interviewing the now elderly children in the 2000s. It's a much more intensely personal memoir than that description seems, perhaps much more understandable to Germans. How do these children come to grips with who their father's were but how to all Germans come to show more understand the entire Nazi period? Alot of questions without alot of answers but all thought provoking. The poresentation is a bit scattershot but it is still worth reading. show less

Almost finished. This is just so good. It's a mixture of a 1959 manuscript by the father and then updates by the son before 2000. Utterly fascinating and very well written (um, translated).

Fascinating read; really pulled me in from the first page. Thought provoking