ABSTRACT
The traumas of Victor's childhood surgeries were magnified by his parents' anxiety that a sick child could be murdered. Victor's designation as the "Firefighter" was to undo the "bad things" his SS grandfather had done. Even though Victor had emailed the information he had found about his paternal grandfather and the T4 programme to his father, they would not talk about the SS officer at all when together. His father indeed gave Victor some letters and allowed him to read them. In these letters the Nazi ancestor was referring to mundane daily activities in his living space near the war zone, having potato soup prepared by a Russian woman, and so on. There were no references to the ongoing war or Nazis or their enemies. It was as if the paternal grandfather was having a pleasant vacation away from his wife and child and wished they could be with him.
