My Father's Keeper: Children of Nazi Leaders - An Intimate History of Damage and Denial

In 1959 the German journalist Norbert Lebert interviewed the children of prominent Nazis: Hess, Bormann, Goring, Himmler, Baldur von Schirach (creator of the Hitler Youth) and Hans Frank (governor of Poland). Not knowing what to do with the interviews, he boxed them up and stored them. After Lebert's death, his son Stephan — also a journalist — inherited the files. Fascinated by what he found, he set out to re-interview the same people forty years later.

Revisiting his father's subjects, L...