Lorenz Hemicker

I had to do.

And we have, I think, about half an hour conversation yet only once with my father already.

where he said the same things, that it was horrible what he did, but he had no other option.

It was impossible to escape these orders.

It was a relatively slow process because at the beginning...

He was not in the center of the prosecutor.

He just had to testify what he had seen.

And it took years until the prosecutor told him to come to Hamburg because he was suspicious, because they wanted to know more about his personal role in the killings of Rombola.

But in this time, he had already cancer.

He was very ill.

And like for most of the Nazis in this time, it was relatively easy to escape.

One thing was illness, and the other thing was that they said, as long as I didn't want to kill the Jews, as long as I had to, I will not go into jail.

Yeah, definitely.

Yeah.

For my father, I think not so much.

I mean, he talked about it in every occasion that was possible, Christmas time with his family, in summer times at the barbecue with neighbors.

But they always said, come on, Peter, let it be.

So for them, it was kind of a normality that Peter talks about such things.

For me, it was a bit different.

As I mentioned, my school time already, looking backwards, I think I felt a bit like Muslims after 9-11, so that I received one additional question.