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Loading... Born Guilty: Children of Nazi Familiesby Peter Sichrovsky
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Nés de parents nazis ou nés de parents juifs, enfants de bourreaux ou enfants de victimes, adolescents de 15 ans ou adultes de 45 ans, vivant en Allemagne ou en Autriche, ils racontent leur vie, témoignent des séquelles de l'Holocauste dans leur famille, dans leur pays, dans leur vie quotidienne, hier et aujourd'hui, ici et ailleurs. Partout, toujours. Loin des études historiques, des essais théoriques, des discours édifiants, ces interviews - qui sont autant de terribles romans -, constituent une approche vécue, cruellement contemporaine qui vaut, et de loin, tous les manuels pédagogiques sur l'antisémitisme. no reviews | add a review
For mature readers, a series of contemporary interviews with the children and grandchildren of the Nazis responsible for the Holocaust. No library descriptions found. |
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All of the people interviewed were born after the war and were the children of identified war-criminals. The children's reactions ranged from complete denial ("My father never did all those things they say he did, it's all lies") to making excuses ("It was just politics, he had to follow orders") to complete revulsion and estrangement from their parents. Interestingly, one of the interviewees was serving a prison sentence for embezzlement at the time of the interview. Another was basically a neo-Nazi.
I don't think the stories (which the author told in the first person) were as revealing and educational as they could have been. It might have been better if the author hadn't been a Jew who had lost relatives in the Holocaust; I think that colored his perception and put the interviewees on the defensive. ( )