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MEDIA FOCUS Hitler's Children Confront Their Legacy For years children of Shoah survivors have been meeting in informal and formal gatherings to come to terms with the horrifying past that their...
...His son, now 60, carries his father's name and past...
...For Dirk, whose father, the head of the Gestapo in Braunschweig, was hanged in 1948, coming to terms has been made harder because, he says, "They were incapable of shame or repentance and therefore left us alone with nothing but the heritage of their awful guilt...
...In confronting the past, Bormann says, "In our world, lies were impossible after the war—we knew where our fathers had stood...
...Impressed at the recent discovery, Shulman commented: 'The scientists came pretty close to the truth...
...MEDIA FOCUS Hitler's Children Confront Their Legacy For years children of Shoah survivors have been meeting in informal and formal gatherings to come to terms with the horrifying past that their parents suffered...
...An Israeli-born son of escaped German Jews and a psychologist, Dan Bar-On, a visiting professor at the West German University of Wuppertal, started the group when he realized that "the relationships between Hitler's aides and their children had never been thoroughly researched" and more than four decades after World War II the subject is sull taboo...
...Many of these children have alienated relatives and friends by bringing their parents' past out into the open...
...Happily, we were wrong...
...In Gitta Sereny's July Vanity firirarticle, "Children of the Reich," the author speaks to children of Nazi officials and collaborators who are haunted by the atrocities that their parents committed in the name of Hitler's Third Reich...
...This text says that prayers for a boy can be effective up to the 40th day of pregnancy, but after that it will be a "vain prayer" because the sex of the child has already been determined...
...If you would like to subscribe, send $15 for a year's subscription to Judaism, American Jewish Congress, 15 E. 84th Street, New York, New York 10028...
...I decided my name was part of me, as my father and the past were part of me, and I had to live with it...
...Martin Bormann was one of the most powerful Nazi leaders and Hitler's personal assistant...
...Assisting Bar-On is Konrad Brendler, a professor of education at the University of Wuppertal, who has guided the group because of what he believes his Catholic parents "did not do" during the war...
...Science Comes "Pretty Close" to Talmudic Truth According to a recent report in the British journal Nature, scientists have just discovered that the gene that determines maleness begins to affect the conceived child somewhere between the 43rd and 49th day after conception...
...A New York Times report on the close agreement between modern science and the ancient rabbinic text also quotes a modern Talmudic teacher, Yanke Shulman, a systems analyst in Manhattan...
...Bormann became a Catholic priest in 1947 and remained in the Heart of Jesus order until 1971, spending most of his time as a missionary in Africa...
...Judaism magazine, an intellectual quarterly published for the last 38 years by the American Jewish Congress, is alive and well...
...Judaism Magazine Is Alive and Well In a recent letter to moment subscribers we lamented that Judaism magazine had discontinued publication...
...According to the Talmud (Berachot 60a), it's the 40th day...
...After leaving the order, Bormann married and now lives in a small village in the Ruhr, West Germany...
...Bormann is a member of a self-help group along with eight others who Sereny calls "Hider's children—the sons and daughters of those who accomplished his terrible work...
Vol. 15 • October 1990 • No. 5
