The book he found was a compilation of photos titled The Yellow Star, published 15 years after World War II, which graphically depicted Nazi crimes against humanity.
“I saw bulldozers pushing piles of corpses into mass graves, I saw photo documentation of medical experiments on Jews with phosphorus burning away their flesh,” he recounted. “And that was the moment when my childhood ended.”
Practically every kid of his generation, according to Metzinger, 66, can tell a similar story. And when he became a teenager, he noticed how evasive adults were when questioned about the atrocities…