22. Executioners and Victims in the Same Family
Simon Pasternak’s Jewish grandfather had moved from Latvia to Denmark in the 1930s, leaving his family behind, where many were killed by the SS during WWII. When Simon asked his grandmother how executioners and victims could live in the same family, she told him that his uncle Dirck hadn’t really been a Nazi. He had just gone to the USSR to fight the communists, but when he saw what the Nazis were up to there, he wanted out, but by then it was too late. That seemed plausible to Simon, and the suitcase was soon forgotten.