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Uncovering My Grandfather's Secret Past
Penguin
April 2011
On Sale: March 31, 2011
384 pages
ISBN: 0399157018
EAN: 9780399157011
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Part personal quest, part family memoir, part World War II
history- and one horrifying family secret. What if you found out that your grandfather-the man who had
been a demanding, magnetic presence throughout your
childhood-was a Nazi SS officer? This is the confession that
Martin Davidson, already into middle age, received from his
mother upon his grandfather Bruno Langbehn's death, and The
Perfect Nazi is Davidson's exploration, using the skills he
honed as a documentary producer for the BBC, of the truth
behind this dark family secret. As Martin dove into his research, drawing on an astonishing
cache of personal documents as well as eyewitness accounts
of this historical period, he learned that Bruno's story
moved lock-step in time with the rise and fall of the Nazi
party. He realized that his grandfather was in many ways the
"perfect Nazi," his individual experiences emblematic of the
generation of Germans who would plunge the world into such
darkness-and he discovered all that he would have to come to
terms with.
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