Hitler's Children
Sons and Daughters of Third Reich Leaders

I heard of this book sometime back and was keen to see the perspectives it throws up. How do the children of key Nazi leaders view their legacy, and how they are coping with the realization of what their fathers had done? Gerald Posner starts with a background of the people he reached out to. Many w......more

Posner’s book, “Hitler’s Children”, was a wonderfully written account of the bonds between children and their former Nazi fathers, those with intergenerational guilt, as well as those who clearly chose denial to cope with and survive the horrors and international record of their fathers’ atrocities.......more

I didn’t think this book would captivate me as much as it ended up doing so. I’m not a huge WWII period reader or even into reading about history as much so this book was a great compromise as it was in interview/narrative form. Reading about the crimes of the parents through the their childrens’ ey......more

My wife is weirdly fascinated by nazis and she recommended this one to me and I'm grateful for that. A very interesting book, well-researched while at the same time admitting that some pieces of information provided here might be less than truthful. I guess that's the problem with a book based solel......more

There is also a movie out on the same subject which interviews the now adult children, interesting, but it is very hard to tackle such a complex subject of transgenerational guilt and inheritance. I am writing a book on the subject myself and find that one needs to carefully look into the elite Nazi......more