My father was born in Germany. He went to university in Berlin and studied engineering. At some point, he began working on Nazi rocket projects. After the war, he was brought here to America and worked on the U.S. space program with a bunch of other Germans. In the late 60s, he met my mother at a club in Florida. She was a lot younger than he. I was told that my mother was a "dancer," but I think perhaps it was a little more "professional" than that. Anyway, they got married, had me, and two other sons. My father never talked about Germany. When he did, it was usually when he was drunk. He said that he was a scientist, not a Nazi, and that he knew nothing about what was happening to the Jews. At school, the other kids would say things like "My father told me your dad is a Nazi." Sometimes I'd get picked on. One of my brothers was a grade below me, but he was very big for his age and would often get into fights with the kids teasing me and with kids who teased him. When I was about ten (1980), my father received a package from Germany from one of his relatives. When he came home from work that night, he saw the package and became what I thought was nervous. He opened the box, picked up the envelope, read it, very quickly looked at what was in the box, and then sat the box aside. I asked him what was in the box, and he said something like "My old school papers." Later that night he got drunk. I looked for the box, but it was gone. The next morning, when me and my younger brother were going to school, I saw it in the trash. We quickly grabbed it and put it in the garage. When we got home, we opened it. Inside was my father's Nazi uniform, and a bunch of letters and documents with his picture on them with the Nazi eagle. There were also some photographs. In one, my father was wearing his uniform and was receiving a medal from someone. In another, he was standing inside some sort of tunnel, and you could see all these people in what looked like pajamas in the background loading things onto hand trucks. My father is dead. I still have the box.