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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 | dG1fVDdZNnZiaUFIdzQ
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00:00Life was something for us, you can't imagine today, death was so near to everybody.
00:14Our fathers both were heavily involved, heavily.
00:23Our fathers committed the most horrible crimes.
00:28My family is very directly affected by the actions of these men.
00:32The killing of my grandfather's entire family.
00:36I was raised like a young Nazi boy and that was normality.
00:42He loved Hitler more than his family.
00:46When I saw the first pictures in the newspapers, mountains of corpses, children my age.
00:53That really hurts.
00:57The question of the historical responsibility of my father is a very complex one.
01:03He was a complete optimist.
01:05He believed that Hitler would change his politics.
01:09I have peace with my father because I acknowledged his crimes.
01:15He is not accepting his father was mass murder.
01:21Your father was sitting there announcing that a hundred thousand Jews are going to be murdered.
01:27And your father, that's what your father did.
01:31Yes, sir.
01:35That's a father to love?
01:37How can we hide?
01:41Accepted.
01:42Dear friend.
01:43Dear friend.
01:49You

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