{"id":14232,"date":"2026-01-06T15:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/?p=14232"},"modified":"2026-07-20T05:37:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T03:37:59","slug":"iii-14-the-perpetrator-is-always-at-the-center-of-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/iii-14-the-perpetrator-is-always-at-the-center-of-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"examples &#8211; 18 &#8211; The perpetrator at the center of the family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The perpetrator is always at the center of the family &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The perpetrator in the family acts as a magnetic pole in the family\u2019s collective memory, attracting some and repelling others. Yet the silence surrounding the perpetrators remains firmly entrenched within the family. At the height of his power, Schneider seemed literally untouchable. The dark side hidden behind his jovial exterior instilled in people a fear that surrounded them like the rings of Saturn.<\/p>\n<p>In the photo on the right: Charles Schneider, Local Group Leader of Rombas and Shop Steward of the Rombas Steelworks in the year 1943 &#8211; fanatic Nazi and antisemit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11173\" src=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/charles-schneider-ermittlungsakte-1946-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/charles-schneider-ermittlungsakte-1946-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/charles-schneider-ermittlungsakte-1946-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/charles-schneider-ermittlungsakte-1946-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/charles-schneider-ermittlungsakte-1946-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/charles-schneider-ermittlungsakte-1946-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Schneider after his arrest in 1946<\/p>\n<p>When we research and report on perpetrators in our families, we integrate this missing piece of our family history into our living narrative, and in doing so, often\u2014many decades later\u2014finally break free from the spell of silence and the cult of personality that was perpetuated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The perpetrator is always at the center of the family &#8211; The perpetrator in the family acts as a magnetic pole in the family\u2019s collective memory, attracting some and repelling others. Yet the silence surrounding the perpetrators remains firmly entrenched within the family. At the height of his power, Schneider seemed literally untouchable. The dark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-examples"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14232"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16982,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232\/revisions\/16982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}