My mother the Nazi prison guard. When HELGA SCHNEIDER finally discovered the real reason her mother had abandoned her, aged four, in war- torn Berlin, the consequences were devastating. Her painful story has now been made into a film.

Adriaane Pielou reports Auschwitz- Birkenau concentration camp is now a memorial and museum. Ten in the morning, in a Vienna hotel. Outside, the Let Me Go film crew, newly arrived from London, are unloading their equipment. In the lobby, the film’s director Polly Steele is pacing up and down, her phone clamped to her ear. In the restaurant, actress Juliet Stevenson, the film’s star, is having breakfast.

And sitting in the lounge, waiting for a coffee, is the reason Polly and her crew are here: 8. Helga Schneider. As a four- year- old in wartime Berlin, Helga sobbed by the front door as her mother abandoned the family to join the SS and become a concentration- camp guard. In her 2. 0s, Helga left Germany, moved to Italy, married an Italian and tried to throw off every Germanic element of her identity. Her efforts didn’t work, and in her 6. Nazi’ for a mother. It is this book that has inspired Polly’s film.‘Films don’t tell women’s stories enough. They don’t get inside women’s heads enough,’ says Polly, snatching a few minutes to talk.

I came across Helga’s book by accident, while browsing in a bookshop. It was sticking out of the shelf, just as if someone had left it like that, wanting it to be discovered, and I’d barely read two pages before I was engrossed.’It’s a compelling story. SS guard Traudi Schneider didn’t just follow orders, she loved her job; took pride in carrying out her gruesome duties. On her release from prison in 1. Between then and Traudi’s death in 2.

Helga saw her mother on just two harrowing occasions. These events have dominated Helga’s life.‘I have not one happy memory of my mother,’ Helga tells me. Since the age of four I have spent just a few hours with her, but she has haunted me all my life.’ Beautifully groomed and with a warm, energetic manner, she looks every inch the Italian she has tried to become. I’ve read her book, though, and when you get inside her head – to use Polly’s phrase – it soon becomes clear that psychologically she is still, in part, the aghast, abandoned German child. Helga's only photograph of herself with her brother as children. Helga can clearly remember the day her mother left: how she caught hold of her mother’s long hair as she bent down to scold her for making such a fuss, her 1. A concerned neighbour knocking at the door; her grandmother temporarily moving in the next day; her father away, fighting for the Führer.

At four she was too young to understand why her mother had left, and everyday life in wartime Berlin, spent cold and hungry in the family’s communal cellar as bombs fell above, soon submerged memories of her. Within a year Helga’s silent, uncommunicative father had remarried. Ursula, an icy woman who loathed Helga, forbade any talk of Helga’s mother. Her stepmother was so devoted to the Third Reich that she arranged, via a sister who worked for the propaganda minister Josef Goebbels, for Helga to be among the group of children who in December 1.

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Hitler in his underground bunker in Berlin. Helga had to spend the preceding days in the bunker, being fattened up – she ate until she was sick – and put under sunlamps so that the Führer would be shielded from the true effect of the war on Germany’s children. Hitler seemed so old and grey,’ says Helga with a slight shudder of distaste. One arm withered, hanging by his side. Shuffling along but with a penetrating gaze. I can still remember the feel of his hand – it was so clammy.’Helga Schneider, whose book Let Me Go has been turned into a film.

It wasn’t until the war ended that Helga began to hear adults murmur about the mass killing of Jews in concentration camps, but she had no idea her mother had any link to the camps. When her father came home from the war, Helga tearfully demanded to know where her mother was, only to be told, furiously, that this was a subject to stay away from. For decades she assumed that meant her mother had disappeared because she’d been unfaithful. It was not until 1. By then Helga had moved to Italy, trying to assume a new identity. She had lost touch with her father and Ursula, married an Italian (gaining a mother- in- law who disliked her for not being Italian) and had a son. Feeling in need of something inexpressible – ‘I had a black hole in me I needed to fill’ – she had tracked down her mother to a flat in Vienna so that her five- year- old son, Lorenzo, could meet his grandmother.‘On the train from Bologna I was thinking, “Well, if she betrayed my father, I can forgive her,”’ she says.

But to her shock, the mother she hadn’t seen for 3. Helga had been doing in the intervening years, no interest in her grandson and was almost gleeful when Helga asked where and why she’d gone away in 1. She said, very proudly, “I worked at Auschwitz. I was in the SS.” She said she’d had to go because she had sworn an oath of absolute allegiance to the SS. Then she said, “And I’ve always dreamt of seeing this on you!” She opened her wardrobe and brought out her old SS uniform jacket.’Her mother also tried to press on Helga a jumbled handful of gold jewellery: spoils from the camps. She remembers recoiling as a little chain, the sort small girls are given for their birthday, spilled out of her mother’s pale bony fingers, realising it must have been ripped from a child on her way to the gas chamber.

She was trying to draw me in, into the ideology, and I couldn’t take it. It was disturbing how much I resembled her. She said, “We are as alike as two eggs!” I told her, “You didn’t want me as a daughter and now it’s me who doesn’t want you as a mother!” After about 4. I took my son and ran.’Helga left feeling traumatised as well as sickened by the expensive items in her mother’s flat, which – as Traudi didn’t work – suggested she was being funded by some Nazi organisation still looking after its own.

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Once back home in Bologna, Helga contacted the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Vienna, which documented Nazi atrocities, and asked to see the files on her mother.

Game of Thrones (season 7)The seventh season of the fantasydrama television series Game of Thrones premiered on HBO on July 1. August 2. 7, 2. 01. Unlike previous seasons that consisted of ten episodes each, the seventh season consisted of only seven.[4] Like the previous season, it largely consisted of original content not found in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, while also incorporating material Martin revealed to showrunners about the upcoming novels in the series.[5][better source needed] The series was adapted for television by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. The penultimate season focuses primarily on the convergence of the show's main plotlines, featuring major events such as Daenerys Targaryen arriving in Westeros with her army and three dragons and waging war against the Lannisters, Jon Snow forging an alliance with Daenerys in an attempt to unite their forces against the White Walker army, Arya and Bran returning to Winterfell and reuniting with their sister Sansa, and the army of the dead breaching the Wall (with the help of a reanimated wightdragon) and entering the Seven Kingdoms.

HBO ordered the seventh season on April 2. August 3. 1, 2. 01. The season was filmed primarily in Northern Ireland, Spain, Croatia and Iceland. Game of Thrones features a large ensemble cast, including Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster- Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, and Kit Harington. The season introduces several new cast members, including Jim Broadbent and Tom Hopper. Episodes[edit]Main cast[edit]Guest cast[edit]The recurring actors listed here are those who appeared in season 7. They are listed by the region in which they first appear.

Production[edit]Series creators and executive producers David Benioff and D. Watch Housesitter Online. B. Weiss serve as showrunners for the seventh season. The directors for the seventh season are Jeremy Podeswa (episodes 1 and 7), Mark Mylod (episodes 2 and 3), Matt Shakman (episodes 4 and 5) and Alan Taylor (episode 6). This marks Taylor's return to the series after an absence since the second season.

Shakman is a first- time Game of Thrones director, with the rest each having directed multiple episodes in previous seasons.[3. Michele Clapton returned to the show as costume designer, after spending some time away from the show in the sixth season. She previously worked on the show for the first five seasons, as well as the end of the sixth season.[3.

Writing[edit]Depending upon the release of George R. R. Martin's forthcoming The Winds of Winter, the seventh season may comprise original material not found in the A Song of Ice and Fire series.[3. According to previous reports, some of the show's sixth season had consisted of material revealed to the writers of the television series during discussions with Martin.[3. Filming[edit]. The shores of Gaztelugatxe were used as a location for filming Season 7. Filming began on August 3.

Titanic Studios in Belfast,[3. February 2. 01. 7.[3. In an interview with the showrunners, it was announced that the filming of the seventh season would be delayed until later in the year due to necessary weather conditions for filming. The showrunners stated "We're starting a bit later because, you know, at the end of this season, winter is here, and that means that sunny weather doesn't really serve our purposes any more. We kind of pushed everything down the line so we could get some grim, gray weather even in the sunnier places that we shoot."[4.

Girona, Spain did not return as one of the filming locations.[4. Girona stood in for Braavos and parts of King's Landing.[4. It was later announced that the seventh season would film in Northern Ireland, Spain and Iceland, with filming in Northern Ireland beginning in August 2. The series filmed in the Spanish cities Seville, Cáceres, Almodóvar del Río, Santiponce, Zumaia and Bermeo.[4. Spanish sources announced that the series would be filming the seventh season on Muriola Beach in Barrika, Las Atarazanas, the Royal Dockyards of Seville and at the shores of San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, an islet belonging to the city of Bermeo.[4. The series returned to film at The Dark Hedges in Stranocum, which was previously used as the Kingsroad in the second season.[4.

Some scenes were filmed in Iceland.[4. Filming also occurred in Dubrovnik, Croatia, which is used for location of King's Landing.[4. The scene where Arya was reunited with Nymeria was filmed in Alberta, Canada.[5. Casting[edit]Deadline reported on June 2. Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster- Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, and Kit Harington had been in contract negotiations for the final two seasons. It was reported that the cast members have increased their salary to $5.

It was later reported that the actors had gone through a renegotiation, for which they had increased their salary to $1. On August 3. 1, 2. Entertainment Weekly reported that Jim Broadbent had been cast for the seventh season in a "significant" role.[2. It was announced that the role of Dickon Tarly has been recast, with Tom Hopper replacing Freddie Stroma, who had previously played the role in "Blood of My Blood".[2.

The seventh season sees the return of Mark Gatiss as Tycho Nestoris, who did not appear in the sixth season,[2. Ben Hawkey as Hot Pie, who last appeared in the fourth season, and Joe Dempsie as Gendry, who last appeared in the third season and maintains his status as starring cast member. Members of the British indie pop band Bastille were reported to have filmed cameo appearances.[5. British singer- songwriter Ed Sheeran also makes a cameo appearance in the season.[5. Guitarist/vocalist of American heavy metal band Mastodon, Brent Hinds, has also revealed he would have a cameo appearance. Watch Family Guy New Episodes Online. This is Hinds' second cameo in the series, following his appearance (along with bandmates Brann Dailor and Bill Kelliher) in the fifth season.[5. Episodes[edit]On April 2.

HBO officially ordered the seventh season of Game of Thrones, just three days prior to the premiere of the show's sixth season.[5. According to an interview with co- creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, the seventh season would likely consist of fewer episodes, stating at the time of the interview that they were "down to our final 1. We're heading into the final lap."[5. Director Jack Bender, who worked on the show's sixth season, said that the seventh season would consist of seven episodes.[6.

Benioff and Weiss stated that they were unable to produce 1. Mockingbird Movie Watch Online. Weiss said "It's crossing out of a television schedule into more of a mid- range movie schedule."[5.