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Derek Niemann

A Nazi in the Family

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Wartime Berlin: The Niemann family – Karl, Minna and their four children – live in a quiet, suburban enclave. Every day Karl commutes to work, a business manager travelling around inspecting his “factories”. In the evenings he returns home to life as a normal family man.Three years ago Derek Niemann, born and raised in Scotland, made the chilling discovery that his grandfather Karl had been an officer in the SS; and that his “business” used thousands of slave labourers in concentration camps, such as Auschwitz, Dachau, Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. Derek had known little about the German side of his family, but now a lifetime of unsettling hints and clues began to fall into place.With the help of surviving relatives and hundreds of previously unknown family photographs, Derek uncovers the true story of what Karl did. A Nazi in the Family is an illuminating portrayal of how ordinary people can fall into the service of a monstrous regime.
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305 printed pages
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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  • Margarita Minasyanhas quoted5 years ago
    I wanted to shout: “Don’t distance yourselves from this. The people who did this are like me. And like you.” And that is the hardest thing to accept and the easiest thing to hide in self-righteous indignation.
  • Margarita Minasyanhas quoted5 years ago
    Two years ago, I went to the concentration camp at Dachau, the pivotal location of this story. In an archive room, two German historians sat opposite me and told me that my grandfather would, without question, have known something about the atrocities that were taking place and that he would have socialised with some of the worst offenders of the Holocaust. Apparently I left the building, apparently I took notes in the doorway and my wife – seeing my face – took my photograph. I have no recollection.
  • Margarita Minasyanhas quoted5 years ago
    One car drove back to the rest place. There I stood – knowing and understanding nothing of the confusion of war – very happy with a bunch of flowers in my hands – and I could not understand what all the excitement was about. I was just proud of the bouquet of flowers I had for Mum and I had no idea whatsoever about the danger around me, around us, from enemy aircraft. How should I as a young child have understood that?
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