Independent Lens

Niklas

My father really had deserved to die at the gallows for what he has done. He deserved it. Besides photos of my beloved family, I always wear with me the last picture of my father when he was-- after he was hanged. He has a swollen eye. So maybe he crashed against the trap door. On the one hand...cha--to be sure that he's really dead, but on the other hand--and this is what hounds me all my life--the Germans know exactly what can happen if you are losing civil courage, if you are losing democracy. It leads to--can lead to extermination camps. So we know this by heart because we have done it, the Germans, and people of his merciless kind of living and killing are still alive in Germany.