![]() ![]() ![]() “He said later he came ‘close to the edge of his reason’ at this time, and that this can happen if someone’s identity that’s been built up over many years is destroyed or falls to bits,” Angier says. He grew depressed and eventually had a breakdown. Then he would get angry and they would have a row.”Īt around the same time, Sebald – who was brought up as a Catholic – began to question the church. “He would accuse his father, and his father would clam up and say he didn’t remember. ![]() “He could never get his parents to talk about the war,” Angier says. Painfully aware that his parents had accepted and benefited from Hitler’s rule, he began to find their silence on the subject agonising. “He saw his father as a Nazi, who had served without question in Hitler’s army.” That was Sebald’s first visual and visceral encounter with it.” ![]() It was the early 1960s, and at the time, Angier says, “the Holocaust was never spoken of in German families. He fought with his father – an “old-fashioned authoritarian man” – his whole life, but their relationship took a turn for the worse when, at the age of 17, Sebald was shown a film at school about concentration camps. Photograph: Courtesy Gertrud Aebischer-Sebald ![]()
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