Prime minister kaja kallas, welcome to hardtalk. Of all the voices of support for ukraine in europe, yours has perhaps been the staunchest, the strongest, the loudest over the last 18 months. Is that because, for you, this isntjust about european security, about geopolitics, it also seems very personal . Well, it is personal, i guess, for, for every estonian. I mean, we are here in the state elder s room and the pictures you see on those walls are of our state elders, so who built our country in 1920s. And if you look at their dates of death, then they all were killed or died in captivity when the occupation started. So for us. They were killed in the soviet union . Yes, so this is what we see in ukraine, is our history reliving itself because of the russian aggression. And yourfamily history, if im right, i think your mother was deported, along with her mother when she was a baby. Yes, my mother was six months old baby when she was deported to siberia, together with my grandmother and
Sackur. Today i am in rural northern germany. Stable, prosperous when he First Century germany. But i am here to talk about the past. And its relationship to the present. My guest is the writer, journalist and son, niklas frank. Now, his father was appointed by hitler to be the governor general of nazi occupied poland. He was intimately involved in the murder of millions of people. So, how has this german son dealt with the terrible crimes of his father . Niklas, iam with the terrible crimes of his father . Niklas, i am wondering why you have chosen to make your life in the very far north of germany. Is it because you wanted to get as far away as possible from your Family Background in bavaria . No, i still love bavaria. And every year we have about many weeks in bavaria, in the same village where i grew up. But it was my profession as a journalist at stern magazine, which i worked for 23 years, was based in hamburg. So i had to lure my wife, she was attached to munich, because she is