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The new documentary Hitler's Children, about the kids and grandkids of prominent Nazis, shows what's gained in the struggle to confront the atrocities of one's own past.

Hitler's Children

There's one moment in Hitler's Children, a documentary about the descendants of famous Nazis, which nicely calls into question the film's whole reason for being.

Katrin Himmler, great-niece of the notorious Heinrich Himmler, points out that to see herself as irredeemably stained by her great-uncle would be to subscribe to the Nazi's "ridiculous ideology that everything depends on bloodlines." Looking right at the camera she says, "I don't believe in that bullshit."

Katrin's certainly got a point.

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But at the same time, her actions suggest that she does believe in that bullshit, at least a little. She wrote a book about her grandfather and his brother, Heinrich, which alienated members of her family. She married an Israeli descendent of Holocaust survivors--and she says that during some