What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy Page #4

Hans Frank started as Hitlers personal lawyer

and then ruse to be Governor-Genera!

of occupied Wand.

Otto von Wchter

was only a notch or two down,

he was one of Hans Frank's deputies.

First the Governor of Krakow,

then the Governor of district Galicia.

What a beautiful castle,

full of criminals at this time.

Everybody of those servants,

of those German staff of the government

who worked also here,

they knew exactly

that no day passes by

that we not committed

the most horrible crimes.

My father always wanted to please Hitler

so he gave a sh*t about really

about the fate of the Jews

or about the fate of the Polish people.

Ah, here it is.

For me it was the most special room

in the whole of the Wawel

because it was a bath

I have never seen before or afterwards.

I always, it was one of my dreams

to have a bath like this,

going down two steps

but this was the only gentle experience

I had with my father.

I came in through this door, very small,

and my father was standing here shaving

and he saw me

and gave a little bit of his shaving foam

onto my nose

and that was the only gentle moment

between him and me which I remember.

And you can see that I remember

how much I was longing

for the love of my father,

otherwise it's quite a normal procedure.

But it burned my soul,

it was the only gentle moment.

Wonderful bathroom.

Why do you think your father

had so little affection for you?

Because he didn't, hmm,

didn't think that I am his son

but the son of his best friend Karl Lasch.

Who was your mother's lover?

At the time, hmm... she could have conceived.

But later I think he believed my mother

that I am his son.

He was five to ten times better educated

for instance than me.

He knew Goethe's Faust by heart

and also most of the plays of Shakespeare.

As if it was Hans Frank's

own procession, huh?

Unbelievable.

I am really happy

that this painting has survived

and is back where it belongs to.

Leonardo Da Vinci's portrait of Cecilia Gallerani

was one of the most famous paintings

in the wand.

Hans Frank took it from a Polish museum

created b y the Czartoryski family

and kept it with him throughout the war.

Do you remember that?

Yes, that I remember

because I thought it was a rat.

- Ermine.

- Ermine.

it's the Lady with Ermine

and the painter Leonardo Da Vinci

described it as a painting that should instill

in any person who looked at it,

feelings of love.

Not to my father.

On a stolen castle, in a stolen country

it makes me really angry.

And there's no sense of pride on your part

that in some way

it could be said that your father's actions

did protect this work?

No, no.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes