Legacy of Silence: Encounters with Children of the Third Reich

by Dan Bar-On

Book Overview

A record of interviews with those who experience Nazi Germany as a legacy that shapes their reminiscences of childhood. Dan Bar-On, an Israeli psychologist, went to Germany to talk to the middle-aged children of Nazis, men who ranged from minor functionaries of the Holocaust to mass murderers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674521862
• ISBN13: 9780674521865
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

How this book helped me.

I thought "Legacy of Silence" was a well written book with countless amounts of information. I read it after it was recommended by a Holocaust researcher, while I was doing a report on the Holocaust for school. During the course of my research I read several books and interviewed a Holocaust survivor. "Legacy of Silence" was without question the most helpful of the books I read. "Legacy of Silence" gives the reader a unique insight to the personal lives of Nazi leaders and the inablility of their children to cope with their parents crimes. On many of the book's stories the children seem to recall almost pleasantly the activities of their parents. In my opinion it shows how, while the children of Holocaust survivors actively attempt to understand what their parents went through, the children of the perpetraters try to avoid dealing with their parents sins. I read "Legacy of Silence" shortly after my interview with a survivor. That interview along with "Legacy of Silence" and many other pieces of information have caused me to educate myself on the Holocaust even now that my paper has long since been completed. As a younger American I am trying to understand what happened during that horrible period of human history. If you are like me and want to learn more than what is in the Encyclopedia. Then I encourage you to read "Legacy of Silence".