SecondIt started in a noisy courtroom. You can hear the click of the back of the chair and the buttons on the purse; rustling through the rules of procedure and the pages of the new edition of the Nuremberg Daily News.Two technicians from Bavarian radio Snap the connector of the tripod into place. The speakers installed above them, on the wooden panelled ledge, cracked, and then thumped dullly. Richard interrupted his legal studies in Göttingen and came here, watching one of the defendants tighten his tie, thinking about the greed for music after the war. According to knowledge, according to the broad ideological world and their standards, the law school only communicates to them in terms and paragraphs, “most of them don’t have much background.” The more he pays attention to the details of the space in front of him, the less he can grasp it as a whole. This will be about the big picture. And about the relationship between everything and everything.
In November 1947 in Nuremberg, in the “Wilhelmstrasse Trial”, Richard von Weizsek and Helmut Becker defended his father Ernst von Weizsek, The latter was accused here as a war criminal.Father on April 1, 1938 National Bureau of Statistics Two days later, he was appointed Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served as the country’s highest diplomat under the Minister of Foreign Affairs Ribbentrop. On April 23, 1938, he signed an application to join the SS and was assigned to the personal staff of the SS SS Heinrich Himmler. Four years later, Himmler Promoted him to SS brigadier general and awarded him the skull ring of honor and the SS sword. Richard looked at his father. He became haggard from imprisonment, his chin moved further back, and his suit became too big, like a costume. Or better: the writer Friedolin Schlei describes the son’s view of the father.
Father and son constellation
Because Schley is studying for a PhD for writer WG Sebald and has published several novels, the most recent novella “Die Ungesichter”, wrote a novel about this process. It is called “National Defense” and it is one of the most disturbing books of this fall, because it once again reveals the whole process in a provocative and calm language. He completely dismantled the formula of National Socialist “diplomacy” and national defense. formula. Nuremberg. He undertook the father and son constellation and a limited trial-the verdict was announced on April 11, 1949-which not only left the Nazi crimes in the image of his father, but also left the emerging Federal Republic in the image of the son. Meet. Through recordings, documents and a long list of second-hand documents (including Richard von Weizsek’s “Four Times”, Ernst von Weizsek’s “Remembrances” written in prison or standard works ” Everything in the Past”-“German Diplomat of the Third Reich”), he showed the moment in Germany with amazing cohesion. People who knew at that time were considered ignorant, and those who were jointly responsible called themselves “all these terrible things” The postman”, and the perpetrator is the so-called resistance.
