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Göring. Hess. Mengele. Dönitz. Names that conjure up dark memories of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. They were the architects of the Third Reich. And they were fathers. Gerald Posner convinced eleven sons and daughters of Hitler's inner circle to break their silence. This second generation of perpetrators in Hitler's Children struggle with their Third Reich inheritance. In grappling with memories of good and loving fathers who were later charged with war crimes, these heirs to the Nazi legacy add a fresh and important perspective to understanding the complexity of what historian, Hannah Arendt, dubbed the banality of evil. Hitler's Children is much more, however, than a series of startling family interviews. It is also a spellbinding insider's look at some of the men whose names have become synonymous with terror. This is a classic book about the second generation of Nazi perpetrators (the only one ever to have family interviews with Hess, Mengele, Donitz, and Göring.) No other book author or documentarian ever got those children to talk again. And Norman Frank, the eldest son of war criminal Hans Frank, also never spoke to anyone but Posner.

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Gerald Posner is the chief investigative reporter for the Daily Beast and the bestselling author of more than ten books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist Case Closed; Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power; Mengele: The Complete Story; and Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Saudi-U.S. Connection. His investigative articles have appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Newsweek, and Time, and have included such scoops as Pete Rose's gambling addiction, Argentina's hidden Nazi files, secrets about the Oklahoma City bombing, and questions over the death of Princess Diana. He is married to author Trisha Posner. Julian Elfer is an award-winning, classically trained British actor with extensive stage experience. He studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and the British Academy at Oxford University, where he studied with the likes of Derek Jacobi, Fiona Shaw, and Alan Rickman. Elfer currently resides and acts in New York City.

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