Somehow if I were to discover that my grandfather was a KGB executioner it would not affect my own existence or personality. My wife was an avid genealogist for some years and did a pretty detailed study of her and my forebears. She found a bunch of characters that would give the snowflakes severe palpitations and perhaps render them immobile in their safe place cocoons but for us it was just as good as finding kings and princes. It is interesting and fun. So I come from beggars and brigands as well as canal diggers and lots of other less than stellar ancestors. For us it adds conversational subjects. I see no cause to hide these things or to abase myself because my ancestors were not aristocracy. Horse thieves are bad actors in their own time but make cool ancestors. Same with NAZIs and pirates.
One of my ancestors is said to have slapped Kaiser Wilhelm. Okay, he wasn’t the Kaiser yet, they were school children, and he had just dipped her braid in the inkwell of his desk. :-)
Yes, by all means, let’s play nice and pity the childless Handler. She is a pathetic excuse for a human being just like her Nazi grandfather.
My Grandpa fought in the Battle of the Bulge and brought a lot of Nazi memorabilia home. I was a teen when he died and Grandma gave it all to me. I got into a lot of trouble one Halloween dressed as a SS Officer toting a real Luger pistol.
My brother was kitted out as an enlisted Nazi and was carrying an MP40. We lived in Skokie IL at the time and it was largely Jewish.
I have a theory that clothing shrink as it moves further back in the closet. (that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. LOL)