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,
You might wonder how I knew as a child that my family was anti-Nazi. One sign was my mother’s tradition of taking me out for a little treat after we took our bacon fat to the butcher for use in nitroglycerin. As we waited and nibbled at the restaurant table She would show me the lists of ships and planes of Germany and America. These lists had symbols of ships and airplanes and she would have me count them. When the numbers were bigger for German craft destroyed, she would express satisfaction and praise my counting skills. She would also praise me for stomping the tin cans flat and tell me how they would help our defense industry (in simple words since I was only 5 to 7 years old in this period).