I’ll pencil in feeling empathy for a dead Nazi war criminal’s PTSD somewhere in 2050, when all the carbon emissions will probably have killed me anyway, if old age hasn’t.
My point is that what ailed the father defined the son, antithetically. If his father hadn’t been so adversarial and defiant about the whole situation it seems unlikely that Dr. Wollschlaeger’s life trajectory would be anything similar to what is has been. As such the cause of the father’s mindset is rather of interest.