The Dead Man in the Bunker

In attempting to piece together his father's life, Pollack assembles the memories of family and friends - who all remain extreme German nationalists until they die - and confronts the past by carefully reconstructing their lives with an extraordinary historical investigation.

Pollack digs deeply into the archives and travels to the places important in the history of the Bast family and in his father's Nazi career.

It is a painful personal journey which Pollack describes, one he had put off for a long time, until he was well into his 50s.

The result is remarkable both as history and as a family memoir.