My Father’s Country: The Story of a German Family

In this compelling, intimate memoir, the daughter of one of the members of the July plot to assassinate Hitler tells the story of three generations and offers unparalleled insight into the German experience in the last century.

On August 15, 1944, Major Hans Georg Klamroth was tried for treason for his part in the July plot against Hitler. Eleven days later, he was executed. Wibke Bruhns, his youngest daughter, was six years old. Decades later, watching a documentary about the events of July 20, she saw images of her father in court suddenly appear on-screen. “I stare at this man with the empty face. I don’t know him. But I can see myself in him.... I know I wouldn’t be here without him. And what do I know about him? Nothing at all.” How could her patriotic family succumb to Nazi sympathies? And what made her father finally renounce Hitler?