Winter's children

Sixty years after the end of the Second World War silence still reigns over several of the crimes of the past. It is a painful process to gather the courage to uncover the dark side of one's roots, yet this is what the grandchildren of the German high officers, who were members of the NSDAP and worked in the concentration camps all across Europe, must do. Jens Schanze takes the first step to break the silence which has surrounded his family.