niklas frank, welcome to hardtalk. thank you.feel that you have some sort of a duty to your country to speak about your past? i think so, yes. i have the duty because, by chance, i was born in this family and i could tell the people... ah, 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 toward your father? it was a growing wish, because of the silence in germany. 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 is it that society behaves if it changes to a dictatorship. and i always have a feeling that germany is still prepared to do this. and so i looked closer towards families and friends and connectedness, and ifound out that still there is 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

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