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Can you imagine what it means to grow up as the child of a mass murderer? Hans Frank and Otto von Wächter were indicted | dG1fSTAydGgyS1dvZEE
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00:00Life was something for us. You can't imagine today. Death was so near to everybody.
00:12Our fathers both were heavily involved.
00:17Heavily. Our fathers committed the most horrible crimes.
00:26My family was very directly affected by the actions of these men. The killing of my grandfather's entire family.
00:34I was raised like a young Nazi boy and that was normality.
00:40He loved Hitler more than his family.
00:44When I saw the first pictures in the newspapers, mountains of corpses, children my age, that really hurts.
00:56The question of the historical responsibility of my father is a very complex one.
01:02He was a complete optimist. He believed that Hitler would change his politics.
01:07I have peace with my father because I acknowledged his crimes.
01:13He is not accepting his father was mass murder.
01:19Your father was sitting there announcing that a hundred thousand Jews are going to be murdered.
01:26And your father...
01:28That's what your father did.
01:32Yes, sir.
01:34That's a father to love?
01:36How can we hide?
01:38How can we hide?
01:39Accept it.
01:40Dear friend.
01:41Dear friend.

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