Mi familia nazi : Un relato íntimo sobre la culpa, la herencia y la importancia de no olvidar el pasado para comprender el presente

Fascinated by World War II from a young age, Bas von Benda-Beckmann learned at thirteen that his great-aunt Luise was the widow of Hitler's most loyal general, Alfred Jodl, who was condemned to death at the Nuremberg Trials for war crimes. Later, he learned the story of Tini, Luise's younger sister, who was a member of the Nazi party, though she later had a relationship with a half-Jewish doctor and befriended one of the men who conspired to assassinate Hitler. Through the letters, memoirs, and diaries of his relatives, and within a meticulously crafted historical context, the author reconstructs the history of Germany from the days of the Reich, the creation and fall of the Weimar Republic, the rise of Nazism, World War II, and the subsequent prosecution of the main perpetrators of the Holocaust. An extraordinary sensitivity allows him to masterfully reconstruct a past that speaks to us all. My Nazi family speaks to us of prejudice, memory, guilt, and the sense of responsibility towards our own past, a past that we must know in order to comprehend and understand the present, and thus prevent the mistakes made from being repeated.