Let Me Go / Helga Schneider 166 p.

Helga Schneider was four when her mother left her family to do the Nazi party's work.  Her mother became a member of the SS and served as a guard at concentration camps, eventually Auschwitz, where she was in charge of a unit responsible for so many acts of torture.  Thirty-seven years since the first time she had seen her mother since 1941, her mother is now in a nursing home.  Helga seeks to find answers but her mother is still an ardent support of the Nazi party’s work.  This is very difficult read as Helga intersperses the interchange with her memories of wartime Berlin, quotes from official reports, and her knowledge of the torture in the camps.  Even jail time has not mitigated her mother's exuberant support of the SS horrific work.