The German Secret

Kirsten Blohm was born in 1946 in an American POW camp in North Germany. Two years later her mother Signe Gondrup took her to the town where she herself was born in eastern Denmark and left her with her own parents. They brought the girl up without revealing anything about why her mother had abandoned her. It was not until the beginning of the 1980s that Kirsten found out that her mother lived in Wales. She found her, and although they lived the next ten years together, Signe did not give her secret away. After her death, Kirsten decided to search for her roots and together with her husband Lars Johansson, who directed this documentary, she started to piece together her past. Was her father a Nazi officer or one of the liberating allies? The chaotic post–war years left few clues behind and her mother had burnt all photographs and documents. This journey of discovery leading her through Germany and the Czech Republic brings surprises as well as disappointments, but such is the nature of all such journeys.