FAMILY HISTORY

My Father’s Encounters With the Nazis Changed Everything He Knew About Himself

He was lucky they only bullied him

This photo must have been taken in the late 1920s. Photos from the author’s collection.

How many of these children in the photo above grew up to be Nazis?

I look closely at my father’s primary school photo. I see him in the front row, third from the left, dressed in short pants and a…