Born after the fall of the Nazi regime, Nora Krug lived with a long shadow cast by World War II. Yet, she knew little about her own family’s involvement. While all four of her grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it.
After 12 years in the U.S., Krug realized that there are questions she is compelled to ask, questions she’d not dared to ask as a child. Returning to Germany, she visits archives, conducts research, and interviews family members, uncovering in the process the stories of her maternal grandfather, a driving teacher in Karlsruhe during the war, and her father’s brother Franz-Karl, who died as a teenage SS soldier. In a book that is a combination of a comic, a scrapbook, a college and a family history, Krug begins to understand the depths of her heritage and her family identity.