I recall the long solo journeys when I would think about my father: the Oberfeldarzt (Retired), the Reichsamtsleiter in the SS, the adjutant to Heinrich Himmler, the author of New Foundations for Racial Research, the man described by the chief prosecutor in the Eichmann trial as a 'desk murderer, ' the man I knew: my father. In 1979 Sigfrid Gauch published the groundbreaking Vaterspuren, (Traces of My Father), the first of the...