The guilt our parents kept silent about forever

by time news

ItzehoheWhen Irmgard F. fled head over heels from her trial date in Itzehohe in Holstein last week, a family memory came back to me. Today my father would be almost as old as the 96-year-old who once worked as a secretary in the Stutthof concentration camp. The old woman is said to be responsible for completing the murder of more than 11,000 people. Irmgard F. was just 18 years old when she started work in the camp near Danzig. My father, who was 14 at the time, was drafted as an anti-aircraft helper in Hamm, Westphalia. A photo from that time shows the blond teenager proudly in an air force uniform with a swastika armband. It later mysteriously disappeared from the family album.

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