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| Himmler comments that her family was lucky to have Heinrich. He was such a monster that they didn't have to think about all the other, everyday Nazis among them--like her beloved grandmother, who,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], she discovered to her disgust, had sent care packages to convicted Nazi war criminals. Katrin's being ironic when she says this is "lucky," of course. But there is a sense in which people like Himmler and Frank and Hoess did leave a kind of gift for those of their descendants willing to take it up. The Nazi atrocities and their architects are so thoroughly evil that Niklas and Rainer and Katrin and Bettina have been forced to acknowledge that evil, and to make their lives, in part, about acknowledging it and dealing with it. "It's really insane," Rainer says, looking around his grandfather's idyllic home at the gates of Auschwitz, "what they built here at the expense of others." Surely when he says that,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he knows that one of the things they built was the family that, eventually, included |
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