[alexander_busek]

I only was told as an adult that they were worried about their relatives there, none of whom were Nazis.

Of course not! Because they definitely would have been honest and told you if some of them had been Nazis, right? Because no one ever lies about that sort of thing, right?

My maternal half included German and Baltic DNA, but also 6 to 9% DNA from the far, far, east.

I would be very suspicious about anything told to you by those DNA-testing companies. They have a political agenda, and are eager to convince you that you have a [insert member of a "marginalized minority"] in the woodpile!

Regards,

[gleeaikin]

I have post cards and letters in German, some day I should get them translated, but my family here was anti Nazi, and members of the German side were dentists, doctors, nurses, archi ftects and engineers, not lawyers and politicians. My family here was anti Nazi, and anti Communist. I am told my grandfather helped prepare a major ocean liner as a troop ship to carry our men to WW1. On both sides of my family were idealists who managed to build something prosperous and then lost it through idealism. If there had been active Nazis in my mother’s family I would have learned from their anger and disapproval over the years.