Thursday, October 28, 2010

"It is not about my father". A conversation with Richard von Weizsäcker on the role of his father as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs during during the Nazi regime

Ernst von Weizsacker was sentenced to five years in prison for involvement in the deportation of French Jews to Auschwitz
It is not about my father. What role  Ernst v. Weizäcker played in the Nazi extermination machine? A conversation with Richard von Weizsäcker on the peace efforts of his father as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, through its role in the expatriation of Thomas Mann and the then knowledge of the Holocaust. Read the FAZ Interview
Best HGK
p.s. by the way: The place in Paris, were the Jews were loaded on the trains to the concentration camps was the place, where the new French National Library is located today. See Seebald / Austerlitz
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