In his new book 'Fatherland,' Burkhard Bilger tells about his 1992 discovery that his grandfather had been tried for war crimes in postwar France - but that's not the whole story
<p>Burkhard Bilger's memoir "Fatherland" examines how his family dealt with the reality that his grandfather had been a Nazi party chief in his Alsace hometown—but not, apparently, a very effective one. </p>
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