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A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain)
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Bilger’s spellbinding memoir hit me powerfully since both our Nazi grandfathers propelled us on journeys of detection and reckoning.
A staff writer for the New Yorker, Bilger grew up with German parents who never talked about their past. However, when a bundle of yellowed letters arrived at their home, it set Bilger on a breathtaking WWII mystery tour.
He tracked down people and documents to discover that his grandfather had been a Nazi party chief in Alsace. He promoted Nazi propaganda and tried to turn his French pupils into “good little Germans.”
Yet since he never used his power…
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