EAN: 9781538159613

THE PENDULUM - JULIE LINDAHL TASCHENBUCH

This gripping memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl's journey to uncover her
grandparents' roles in the Third Reich as she is driven to understand how and why they became
members of Hitler's elite  the SS. Out of the unbearable heart of the story?the unclaimed guilt
that devours a family through the generations?emerges an unflinching will to learn the truth.
In a remarkable six-year journey through Germany  Poland  Paraguay  and Brazil  Julie uncovers
among many other discoveries  that her grandfather had been a fanatic member of the SS since
1934. During World War II  he was responsible for enslavement and torture and was complicit in
the murder of the local population on the large estates he oversaw in occupied Poland. He
eventually fled to South America to evade a new wave of war-crimes trials. The pendulum used by
Julie's grandmother to divine good from bad and true from false becomes a symbol for the
elusiveness of truth and morality  but also for the false securities we cling to when we become
unmoored. As Julie delves deeper into the abyss of her family's secret  discovering history
anew  one precarious step at a time  the compassion of strangers is a growing force that
transforms her world and the way that she sees her family?and herself.

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