German grandchildren of Nazis delve into past

Associated Press ^ | May 14, 2011 | KIRSTEN GRIESHABER

[Morpheus2009]

At least this tells you why some people in Europe are Holocaust Deniers, who would like to have the last name of Himmler or Hess in Germany nowadays.

[tutstar]

bfl

[Cicero]

This reporter seems to make a living writing about Nazis.

http://www.bing.com/search?FORM=WLETDF&PC=WLEM&q=Nazi+grieshaber&src=IE-SearchBox

If the sins of the fathers are to be visited on their sons, then let’s keep in mind that Obama’s ancestors on one side were slave owners, and on the other side were slave traders.

[bigheadfred]

Have a friend named Deichmann.

He’s always joked they had to add the “D” after the war.

[Nepeta]

Human beings have incredible capacity for doing evil things to others. Some cultures are worse than others, but human cruelty is amazing.

So is human decency and righteousness.

I learned in my 40s that my family had owned slaves in Alabama. I don't know their names or exactly where this was. I don't feel guilty about it, either; I never had sick fantasies about owning a plantation with hundreds of slaves sweating for my comforts.

It happened, but I did not do it.

[Always A Marine]

Very interesting article. I am blessed to have had parents and grandparents who led honorable lives, and I grateful to have inherited their good names. I feel sorry for these Germans who, through no fault of their own, live in the shadows of monsters. Life is hard enough as it is, but these people carry burdens that I do not. I pray that God will break the chain of their grandparents’ sins.

[hinckley buzzard]

It is useful to know that after the Nuremburg trials finished, Germany went into an era of silence about the Third Reich. That current Germans want to fill in the blanks is a healthy impulse and not one which warrants judgment on the innocents.

[hellbender]

Too bad there is nothing comparable to this in the ex-Soviet Union. None of the killers in the Soviet regime were ever brought to justice. In fact, Vladimir Putin, the neo-Soviet boss of Russia, was an agent of the KGB, the outfit which murdered millions. Stalin killed more people than the National Socialists, and Mao killed even more, yet we trade with and thereby build up the Chinese Communist Party.

[Olog-hai]

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Too bad there is nothing comparable to this in the ex-Soviet Union. None of the killers in the Soviet regime were ever brought to justice. In fact, Vladimir Putin, the neo-Soviet boss of Russia, was an agent of the KGB, the outfit which murdered millions. Stalin killed more people than the National Socialists, and Mao killed even more, yet we trade with and thereby build up the Chinese Communist Party

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My stance is that anyone who will do business with the communists is a radical leftist.

[pnh102]

I sincerely hope these children realize that they had no part in, nor should they be held to account for, nor should they be expected to atone for, anything their relatives did in the past long before they were born.

This type of piece reads to me like another liberal attempt to plant a guilt trip into people.

[pnh102]

My stance is that anyone who will do business with the communists is a radical leftist.

I was gonna say that someone has to sell the Chicoms the rope... but even they make that too.

[dainbramaged]

One of my best friends is a grand nephew of Ernst Rohm, the former nazi brownshirts boss. It doesn’t bother him, he never knew the guy.

[Hulka]

“The gardener at his boarding school, an Auschwitz survivor, beat him black and blue after hearing he was the grandson of Rudolf Hoess”

Wow. . .so brave of the gardener.

Bleah. . .coward to beat the grandson. Sheesh, what a freaking coward. Reminds me of muslims.

[BenLurkin]

What are Russian children taught about the atrocities their grandfathers committed during the Great “Patriotic” War?

[Charlespg]

should have put the fool in jail

[Riley]

At least this tells you why some people in Europe are Holocaust Deniers, who would like to have the last name of Himmler or Hess in Germany nowadays.

Himmler's daughter, who accompanied him to the camps as a child, is still around. She's a holocaust denier and works on behalf of a secret organization that helps out old war criminals.

She's about as toxic as she can get away with being in today's Europe.

[meatloaf]

The gardener must have failed the anger management class in the concentration camp. I wonder if he lost his wife and children in the camp. Obviously Hoess has progeny that survived.

[Hulka]

The grandson had nothing to do with his grandfather's action. Nothing. No amount of “understanding” will mitigate the guilt of the coward that attacked an innocent child.

[dfwgator]

The conviction Thursday in Munich of retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk on charges he was a guard at the Sobibor Nazi death camp drives home how the Holocaust is still very much at the forefront of the German psyche.

Demjanjuk was Ukrainian.