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.
Schande über Dich! You should have gotten them translated twenty years ago!
Nowadays, the translation wouldn't be the problem - rather, it would be deciphering the old-style Standardschrift (often mistakenly referred to as "Sütterlinschrift").
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
But of course they were! I mean, it's not as though there would have been any reason for them to hide or minimize the truth, now would there?
I am told my grandfather helped prepare a major ocean liner as a troop ship to carry our men to WW1.
Just as every person with a drop of Indian blood claims to be descended from an "Indian princess" or such - never from a low-ranking tribesman.
This phenomenon in genealogy is referred to as amelioration.
Regards,