As a psychotherapist who has
practiced for over 25 years, I well know how difficult
it is to come to grips with realities of
parental pathologies and their resulting evils. There
are reasons for this: even after their death, on an
unconscious level, adult sons and daughters fear that
exposing parental truths severs an emotional umbilical
cord and leads to their own deaths. And so denials
flourish. The Nazis and their like in varied societies
are not "ordinary men" living in "certain
circumstances." People remember what is not too painful
and easily spin and cover up the rest. Ms. Himmler's
description of loving parents and grandparents is pure
denial and cover-up. I have read that many Nazis also
loved their pets. Perhaps they even watered their
plants.
