Zackman is an actress and audiobook narrator. Gabra Zackman does a great job narrating the book. I read this as an audiobook downloaded from Audible. She was a Steven Traveling Fellow 2015-16 at Wellesley College and University College of London. in International Relations from Oxford University. from Wellesley and was a Fulbright Scholar to Germany majoring in the German language. I found her search techniques to be interesting. Lindahl uses her skills as an academic to research and report on this difficult subject. She tells of her grandparents’ lives but also about her own emotions about her discoveries. This book will make you stop and think about the rise of fascism and what is happening today in the world. She discovered her grandfather was not only a Nazi but SS. Lindahl was born in Brazil where her grandparents had emigrated after World War II. If you have ever done any genealogy research on your family, you will be enthralled with this book. This is a fascinating story about a historian’s search for the truth about her family history. As Julie delves deeper into the abyss of her family's secret, discovering history anew, one precarious step at a time, the compassion of strangers is a growing force that transforms her world and the way that she sees her family-and herself. The pendulum used by Julie's grandmother to divine good from bad and true from false becomes a symbol for the elusiveness of truth and morality, but also for the false securities we cling to when we become unmoored. He eventually fled to South America to evade a new wave of war-crimes trials. During World War II, he was responsible for enslavement and torture and was complicit in the murder of the local population on the large estates he oversaw in occupied Poland. In a remarkable six-year journey through Germany, Poland, Paraguay, and Brazil, Julie uncovers, among many other discoveries, that her grandfather had been a fanatic member of the SS since 1934.

Out of the unbearable heart of the story-the unclaimed guilt that devours a family through the generations-emerges an unflinching will to learn the truth.

This gripping memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl's journey to uncover her grandparents' roles in the Third Reich as she is driven to understand how and why they became members of Hitler's elite, the SS.

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