This book is the first part of an extensive family history, a story that is unparalleled. The sadder and more dramatic an event, the longer it can take for something to come out about it, because of its tragedy. The fact that people cannot talk about it, only after years, decades sometimes, or even longer. Or are not allowed to talk about it, because it is dangerous, certainly after WOII that played an important role.
This story only has victims, the lid has been lifted from an enormous cesspool, you could almost speak of a 'psychosis en famille', although most of the facts are simply based on the truth.
It is a story that needs to be told, if only to do justice to the victims. Also to show how an event that at first glance seems trivial can grow into an unparalleled disaster, a bone of contention with the potential to split the whole world in two, that is what happens when people stop communicating. When they turn to aggression, often for financial reasons and not good, that is why forgiveness is so important at all times and the core of Christianity.