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The children of Nazis : the sons and daughter of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and others -- living with a father's monstrous legacy / by Tania Crasnianski ; translated by Molly Grogan.

by Crasnianski, Tania.

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Arcade Publishing, 2018.

943.0860922 C894c

Children of Nazis -- Biography.

Nazis -- Family relationships.

Nazis -- Germany -- Biography.

9781628728057 (hc.)

xx, 235 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Translation of: Enfants de Nazis.

"First published in France in 2016 under the title Enfants de Nazis"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface -- Regarding translations -- Introduction -- Gudrun Himmler: Nazism's "poppet" -- Edda Göring: the little princess of "The negro of Nazi Germany" -- Wolf R. Hess: a life in the shadow of the last of the war criminals -- Niklas Frank: a hunger for the truth -- Martin Adolf Bormann Jr.: the "Crown Prince" -- The Höss children: the family of the Kommandant of Auschwitz -- The Speer children: offspring of "The Devil's Architect" -- Rolf Mengele: the son of "The Angel of Death" -- Conclusion: a German story?

In 1940, the German sons and daughters of great Nazi dignitaries Himmler, Göring, Hess, Frank, Bormann, Speer, and Mengele were children of privilege at four, five, or ten years old, surrounded by affectionate, all-powerful parents. Although innocent and unaware of what was happening at the time, they eventually discovered the extent of their father's occupations: These men - their fathers who were capable of loving their children and receiving love in return - were leaders of the Third Reich, and would later be convicted as monstrous war criminals. For these children, the German defeat was an earth-shattering source of family rupture, the end of opulence, and the jarring discovery of Hitler's atrocities. How did the offspring of these leaders deal with the aftermath of the war and the skeletons that would haunt them forever? Some chose to disown their past. Others did not. Some condemned their fathers; others worshiped them unconditionally to the end. Tania Crasnianski examines the responsibility of eight descendants of Nazi notables, caught somewhere between stigmatization, worship, and amnesia. Author Tania Crasnianski was born in France of a German mother and French-Russian father. She is a criminal lawyer.

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