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Hitler’s Children by Kurt Ladner

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bookshelves: gr-library, fradio, play-dramatisation, published-1943, tbr-busting-2014, winter-20132014, wwii, nazi-related

Read from January 20 to 21, 2014

 

Hitler’s Children (Radio Adaption) 1943 ABEE
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HITLERS CHILDREN is a searing documentary focusing on these tormented souls who look, talk, eat and breathe like everyone else… and yet feel as if they were spawned by the devil. –Allan Hall, The Sun

POWERFUL! A compassionate group portrait of five actual descendants of the Nazi regimes most notorious actors. –Michelle Orange, The Village Voice

A GREAT ACHEIVEMENT! Cunningly structured as a good thriller – and just as taut. –George Robinson, The New York Jewish Week

Product Description: Adolf Hitler did not have children, but what of the families of Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler and Hans Frank, to name a few? What is it like for the descendants of these top Nazi officials to deal with the legacy left behind by their notorious families? HITLER’S CHILDREN introduces us to the children, grandchildren and nieces and nephews of these infamous men. Among them Niklas Frank, son of Hans Frank and godson of Hitler, who despises his father’s past so much that he has spent his entire adult life researching and writing negatively about him, often touring around Germany to lecture against his father and the Nazi regime. And Bettina Göring – the great-niece of Hitler’s second in command, Hermann Göring – who lives in voluntary exile in Santa Fe, NM and together with her brother decided to get sterilized so as to not pass on the Göring name or blood. These, and many others, discuss how they have coped with the fact that their last name alone immediately raises images of murder and genocide; and how they have reached a balance between the natural admiration and affection children feel towards their parents, and their innate revulsion of their crimes. Some have been more successful than others at achieving that balance, but each bares, for the first time, the scars that their legacy has left them.

Nelson DeMille, writing as Kurt Ladner, based his book on Cecil B DeMille’s LUX radio show.

ASIN: B008EXG6QC
Date – 24/05/1943

Four Quartets

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bookshelves: radio-4, published-1943, winter-20132014, poetry, nobel-laureate, philosophy, religion

Read from January 16 to 19, 2014

 

Sat 18/1/2014 R4

Jeremy Irons reads TS Eliot’s four linked meditations.

BBC description: Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot’s career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, ‘Burnt Norton’, ‘East Coker’, ‘The Dry Salvages’ and ‘Little Gidding’, present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. It was the way in which a private voice was heard to speak for the concerns of an entire generation, in the midst of war and doubt, that confirmed it as an enduring masterpiece.

With an introduction by Michael Symmons Roberts, Lord David Alton and Gail McDonald.

It is all very Proustian:

Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.

Found it a wonderful experience to read as I listened, and you can listen too. Without this I would have read salvages the wrong way: Eliot wrote it to be pronounced ‘salve-ages’, which is incredibly neat and in context.

Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated
Of dead and living. Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment
And not the lifetime of one man only
But of old stones that cannot be deciphered.

4* Four Quartets
3* The Waste Land
5* Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
3* Murder in the Cathedral