niklas frank, welcome to hard talk. thank you.u feel that you have some sort of a duty to your country to speak about your past? i think so, yes. i think i have that duty because by chance, i was born in this family, and i could tell the people how to behave with parents like i had. when do you think you first began to feel that you must speak out as volubly, as publicly as possible about your father and about your feelings towards your father? it was a growing wish because of the silence in germany. the families, all the families of my friends, everybody was silent, and they didn't talk about the past. and this, i couldn't endure because i always wanted to know how 5 society behaves if it changes to a dictatorship, and i always had a feeling that germany is still prepared to do this, and so i looked closer toward families and friends and i found out there is still something in the german people which makes me fear them. fear, your own country and your own people? yes, i would say so. well, i want to pick up on that because that i

my guest is the writer, journalist and son, niklas frank.german son dealt with the terrible crimes of his father? niklas frank, i'm 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 spend many weeks in bavaria in the same village where i grew up. it was my professional journalist, which i worked for 23 years based in hamburg. so i had to lure my wife from munich because she was a big gardener to a house with a big garden, and it was a good idea, and so we live here for 33 years.