[4] Pollack's 2004 bestselling account of his father Gerhard Bast's violent death in the wake of World War II in 1947 near the Brenner border of Austria with Italy created a new genre of WWII truth and reconciliation non-fiction literature in German.
Pollack's uncle was involved in the deportation of the Slovenes from Upper Carniola,[6] for which Eberhard Kranzmayer's dialectological "studies" were used as rationales between "Re-Germanization" and extermination.
[2] Pollack's 2004 bestselling account of his father Gerhard Bast's violent death in the wake of World War II in 1947 near the Brenner border of Austria with Italy created a new genre of WWII truth and reconciliation non-fiction literature in German.
[7] Pollak, viewing since his high school days radically different from his family members in relation to Nazism, offered through his lived research and reconciliation experience, a different model to overcoming war and racist trauma, thus "shaping" this debate in most constructive ways.
[9] Talk by Martin Pollack [in English] at the IWM in Vienna, 14 June 2024, entitled The Long Shadow of a Sinister Past: A Never-Ending Story.