What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
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- 2015
- 96 min
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Imagine what it must be like
to grow up as the child
of a mass murderer.
To live with such a parent
must impose the most terrible of burdens.
My name is Niklas Frank
I am born 9th of March, 1939.
This is not special,
special is that I'm by chance
the son of Hans Frank.
He was politically responsible
for all the ghettos
and for the concentration camps
on the soil of Poland.
I was researching a book on
the Nuremberg ma! when I met Niklas Frank
and later he introduced me
to Horst von Wchter.
I was born in Vienna on 14th April, 1939.
So I'm still a child of peace.
It was before the war.
As gratitude towards the Nazi party,
my mother proposed the name of Horst,
after Horst Wessel
who was a prominent figure
from the first years of the Nazi party.
Right from the beginning,
my father. he was a commie Nazi.
The material
was all the more relevant to me
because of my own family background.
I'm Jewish and my family
was very directly affected
I'm curious about details and people.
I want to know why things happened,
why people act as they do,
how they can engage in mass killing
and then spend an evening with their families.
Yet, watching these images felt dirty.
As though, I was complicit
in a voyeuristic sort of way
looking on the inside of horror.
Mr. President, members of the court,
uh, ifs an honor...
My day job
is working as an international lawyer
but it was while
working on my book
that I was commissioned to write an article
about Horst von Wchter.
I came with a tremendous anxiety
because I just didn't know what to expect,
and because of this connection with the past.
Here was a man who might have met Hitler.
I was meeting someone
who was directly connected,
not just with abstract history
but with a deep part of my family's life.
How did you find this house?
Here, there was a colony of artists
in the '60s, you know.
Living in the schloss?
- Yeah, yeah.
It was a secret place, you know,
- where they came and made their festivities.
- Yeah.
I love this staircase.
Everything has a meaning,
you know.
Positions of the doors for elements,
for directions.
This room is, hmm, devoted to Trismegistus,
who's the god of wisdom, god of numbers.
Twenty-two windows.
- No, that...
No, 16 windows.
- There are 16, then you have four doors.
Yeah.
- And you have two chimneys, you know.
- Yeah.
And 22 is the number of the letters
in the Hebrew alphabet.
This is really very important.
The Hebrew thing
keeps coming back.
Yes, it is Hebrew.
Here you see we have two lovers, you know.
Are they the same lovers
or are they different lovers?
No, they are different.
They are very different, you know.
I've some to talk with him about
what his father got up to
and he just wanted to talk about stones
and rocks and buildings,
about history going back millennia,
not just 70 years.
You can see here the two put here,
they are kissing each other, you know.
You told me that this building
was your father's gift to you.
- Oh, yes.
- What did you mean by that?
When you... You said that to me,
what did you mean by that?
This has to do with my youth
and how I dropped out of normality
because of my father.
Because my normality was, hmm,
that was normality between, hmm, until 1945
when I was six years
and that was practically destroyed, you know,
by this whole, by the war more or less
but I see it now like this.
Because everything was finished, you know,
and I was raised like a...
Like a young Nazi boy
and that everything was right
and things like that
and from one day to the other
everything was gone, you know,
and that was... I was really shocked.
I mean, I feel it today,
so that's why I'm here, you know,
more or less.
I do remember moments in summertime
on the lake.
I remember my, hmm, sixth birthday
which was on 14th of April 1945.
Ifs not only that the regime broke down
but everything around us broke down.
The normality broke down for us, for me,
and I was just... I remember
when I was sitting on this, hmm, veranda
overlooking, hmm, the lake
and we had this small birthday party
and then I was alone and just thought that
for all my life.
You had this feeling
that everything is finished,
there is no future for you
and whatever you do
it has no sense, you know.
What I remember now is the...
The British and American war planes.
You saw these huge masses
of planes over you
and sometimes they...
Yes, I remember. Yes.
I remember that they dropped.
They dropped the bombs in the lake,
you know.
When they had too much bombs
or they just wanted to get rid of the bombs,
they dropped it into the lake and...
And the whole, uh... The whole house
started to shiver, you know.
Within an hour of sitting in his room
he'd taken out the family albums
and we were going through pages
of summer holidays and winter holidays,
interspersed with pictures of Dachau
images of AH, Adolf Hitler,
and at! that happened
in the first two hours that t met Horst.
And here we have him on the water,
Austrian rowing champion on the Danube.
Yes.
- Next album.
- As the years move on.
Otto von Wchter played a central role
in the murder of the Austrian Chancellor
by the Nazis in 1934,
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