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|title=A Nazi in the Family: The Hidden Story of an SS Family in Wartime Germany

|sort=Nazi in the Family: The Hidden Story of an SS Family in Wartime Germany, A

|publisher=Short Books

|date=March 2015

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|summary=A great addition to the Holocaust book shelves, as what a family thought was a low-level office worker in Nazi times was finally revealed to be someone much more interlinked with the regime's evils.

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I'm sure someone somewhere has rewritten The Devil's Dictionary to include the following – ''family: noun; place where the greatest secrets are kept''. The Niemann family is no exception. It was long known that grandfather Karl was in Germany during the Second World War, people could easily work that out from the family biography. Yet little was spoken of, apart from him being an office-bound worker, either in logistics or finance. Since the War two of three surviving siblings had relocated to the Glasgow environs, and there was even a family quip concerning Goebbels and Gorbals (''family: noun; place where the worst things are spoken in the best way''). What was a surprise to our author, and many of his relatives, was that things were a lot closer to the former than had been expected, for Karl was such an office worker – for the SS. With a lot of family history finally out of the closet of silent mouths, and with incriminating photographic evidence revealed in unlikely ways, the whole truth can be known. But this is certainly not just of interest to that one small family.