Children of the Third Reich: Three Pasts, Three Futures with Catrine Clay

The poignant true story of three children born during the Nazi regime - and their eventual meeting 50 years later.

About the event

The Third Reich cast a long shadow, not least over those born in Germany at that time. Whether the children of Nazi perpetrators or Holocaust survivors, they all had to come to terms with their dark past, based on an inhuman racial ideology.

Renate was born in 1941, the daughter of an unknown SS General and Nazi war criminal who fathered her as part of his racial duty to produce ‘A Child for Hitler.’ Joe was born in 1946 in a Displaced Persons camp for Holocaust survivors. Dan was born in Haifa in 1938 to German Jewish immigrant parents. All three grew up surrounded by silence and secrets, because their parents wanted to protect them from the horrors of the dark Nazi past which had devastated their lives.

Decades later the three met, each trying to come to terms with their legacies of silence, secrets and pain. In Children of the Third Reich, acclaimed historian Catrine Clay traces their stories from Germany to the United States and Israel, confronting their dark pasts in order to find ways to a better future.

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About the speaker

Catrine Clay is an acclaimed historian and documentary film maker. Her books include The Good Germans (2020), Labyrinths (2016) and Trautmann’s Journey (2016).