8. Ludin’s Descendants
Ludin’s family preferred to remember him as an innocent Nazi, who was ignorant of the fate awaiting the thousands of Jews he got deported. They dismissed evidence to the contrary as fake news, and described Ludin and his place in the grand scheme of things as “Small fry – who cares?“. It was only in the generation of his grandchildren that Ludin’s descendants began coming to terms with the legacy of their ancestor, who might have been small fry compared to better-known Nazis, but who was nonetheless responsible for the deaths of thousands. Today, his granddaughter Alexandra Sennft, is a journalist and writer, active in fighting political extremists.