Hitler's children

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Recounts eleven interviews with sons and daughters of Nazi war criminals. Niklas and Norman Frank, sons of Hans Frank, believe that their father was not an antisemite but rather an opportunist. Both remember seeing Jewish ghettos - Niklas as a very small child taken along on his mother's "shopping trips"; she exploited the plight of the Jews to extort valuables from them. (Niklas published a very bitter book about his father, "Der Vater: Eine Abrechnung", in 1987.) Rolf Mengele, who grew up with a stepfather, confronted his father after many years but was unable to get him to admit that he had done wrong. Dagmar Drexel, daughter of Max Drexel, commander of an Einsatzgruppe which massacred Jews in the area of Simferopol (Crimea), tells how she discovered her father's past when he was tried for war crimes in 1975. He spent only five years in prison; both he and the townspeople considered even this punishment unjust. His daughter now rejects him. also contains brief biographies of the parents. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)