Traitor child

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Verräterkind was the one into the era of National Socialism term (even later and by individuals) used for a child of a resistance fighter or a resistance fighter (in Nazi parlance " traitor " or " traitors "); on the other hand, he names a child of a mafia dropout.

Movie

Christian Weisenborn (* 1947) is the director of the documentary Verräterkinder - The Daughters and Sons of the Resistance . Weisenborn's parents ( Günther and Margarete Weisenborn ) were sentenced in 1942 as members of the Red Orchestra. With luck, they escaped execution.

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Werner Raith : Traitor Child . Omnibus, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-570-20693-9 .
  2. Christina Rentmeister: The fate of the "traitor children" . In: Rheinische Post . July 12, 2014, p. A10 ( rp-online.de [accessed on January 29, 2017]).