re: #90 DisturbedEma

Funny you should mention a shirtwaist factory- just saw a documentary about Triangle, which included members of the owner’s families, whose take on the fire was very conflicted. On the one hand they were glad their great great grandfather had survived long enough to have their children. but on the other, a shame attached to the legacy of being an owner’s heir.

I saw a BBC documentary called “Hitler’s Children” which was about some of the offspring of prominent Nazi party figures. One of the people interviewed was the grandson of Rudolf Hss He spoke along very similar lines. He had what could only be called “survivor’s guilt”. Another man was the son of Hans Frank, who was Hitler’s chief deputy in occupied Poland. He was grateful that his father had been executed before he was old enough to be poisoned by his father’s ideas. Even though you know you bear no responsibility for what they did, having monsters in the family tree must be a heavy weight to carry.