As part of the exhibition "In Betrachtung - Menschen Bilder Krieg" by Antonia Bisig at the Gotisches Haus, Katrin Himmler explores the question of why National Socialism and its "Herrenmenschen" ideology was so attractive to her own family and many other Germans, how they dealt with or concealed their responsibility after 1945, and what effects this family silence still has today.

katrin Himmler is a political scientist, author and grandniece of Heinrich Himmler. For many years, she has been dealing with family lore about the Nazi era, the critical questioning of which she sees as an important form of social confrontation both with National Socialism and with today's New Right. Publications include: "Die Brüder Himmler. Eine deutsche Familiengeschichte" (2005) and, together with the historian Prof. Dr. Michael Wildt, "Himmler privat. Briefe eines Massenmörders" (2014).

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