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Marianne Bachmeier’s name continues to ring true forty years later as a representation of grief, retribution, and the morally ambiguous space between justice and vigilantism.
The beginning of Marianne’s story was difficult. Tragic events, trauma, and severe emotional scars characterized her early years. The family was plagued by the shadow of her father’s service in the Waffen-SS during the rule of Nazi Germany. Marianne experienced trauma and abuse as a young child. At sixteen, she became pregnant and placed her child for adoption. She made the same tragic choice when she became pregnant again two years later. However, everything changed when she gave birth to her daughter Anna in 1973. Marianne raised the child alone this time and kept the child.
