Glasgow Refugee and Asylum Network (GRAMNet) Hitler's Children

Their family names alone evoke horror: Himmler, Frank, Goering, Hoess. Hitler’s Children is about the descendants of the most powerful figures in the Nazi regime: men and women who were left a legacy that permanently associates them with one of the greatest crimes in history. What is it like for them to have grown up with a name that immediately raises images of murder and genocide?

For more than 60 years, they have lived in the shadows, trying to rebuild their lives without the constant reminders of what their fathers and grandfathers once did. Only now are they ready to bare the scares that their legacy left them.

In Hitler’s Children they discuss the delicate balance they have reached as they negotiate between the natural admiration that children have toward their parents and their innate revulsion of their parents’ crimes.

How can they protect their families, even as they pass their name down to future generations? And how do they relate to the other side, the victims for whom their very names stir memories of revulsion and terror that cannot be repressed?

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