Top Democrat fundraising boss shared picture honoring her NAZI grandfather on Veterans Day

The Daily Mail ^ | 27 Jan 2026 | EMMA RICHTER

[MinorityRepublican]

A top Democrat fundraising boss in Michigan shared a picture honoring her grandfather, a German who fought for the Nazis, on Veterans Day.

Kelly Neumann, a fundraising co-chair for several Democratic candidates, shared images of her late grandfather, Albert Neumann, on Facebook in 2024.

The unearthed post was a tribute to all of her family and friends who served in the miliary, including Albert, who she said was on the 'German side in WWI & WWII.'

Historically, Nazis, also known as members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), was a totalitarian political party under the rule of German dictator Adolf Hitler during World War I and II.

The Nazis were responsible for the murder of six million Jewish people, and millions more, during the Holocaust.

Veterans Day is a national holiday that honors allied military members who sacrificed their lives for the country during their time in the Armed Forces.

In her post, Neumann, who is also a principal attorney at Neumann Law Group, shared images of her grandfather wearing Nazi regalia.

He also appeared to be donning an officer's uniform - and she said that he 'escaped' to Brazil after 1945, which was a route many top-ranking Nazis took to evade justice in Europe during the Nuremberg trials.

'Happy Veterans Day to all my family and friends who serve/served! Without you, America would not be here today,' she said.

'Interesting story, I do not talk much about but my Grandfather, Albert Neumann was on the German side in WWI & WWII.

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[stanne]

Crazy

[No name given]

Very.

[Frank Drebin]

"Historically, Nazis, also known as members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), was a totalitarian political party under the rule of German dictator Adolf Hitler during World War I and II. "

Did anyone proofread this?

[Opinionated Blowhard]

On the one hand, if all she did is show a picture of her grandfather who was a soldier in the German or one of their allied armies, so be it. I had plenty of German friends who were proud of their fathers and grandfathers who fought honorably in World War II. There is nothing wrong with that. But showing a picture in full Nazi regalia? That seems a little tone deaf.

[pierrem15]

Not an SS uniform, but the photo is dated 1938, pre-WWII. The Nazis reinstated conscription in 1935, so he could have been a conscript.

The second photo appears as more recent and may show a combat infantry badge on the lower right and an Iron Cross Third Class (only the ribbon was to be shown) on the left.

[Waverunner]

No, He was not one of my boys..

[MotorCityBuck]

Not all German soldiers (Wehrmacht) were members of the Nazi Party, though the military was deeply involved in supporting Nazi ideology and war aims. While many, particularly younger soldiers, were indoctrinated, a large portion of the 17 million service members were conscripts, not formal party members.

[pierrem15]

The motif of the younger soldier fanatic vs. the older less indoctrinated Wehrmacht soldier is a constant in the literature.

Parts of the Wehrmacht were involved in basically 3 categories of atrocities:

i) Some combat units participated in or assisted the SS in the murder of Jews after the opening of Barbarossa in 1941 and after Fall Blau in 1942. But most particularly the Reserve Police Battalions attached to the SD and SS behind the lines.

ii) anti-partisan and reprisal actions throughout the war, especially in Poland, Belarus and Yugoslavia. These got worse as the war went on.

iii) Ordinary, non-ideological raping and pillaging. This was, however, strongly discouraged as ill disciplined.

The ironic thing is that most of those who participated or supported directly killing Jews in the East were by 1943 mostly dead, as were almost all of the Jews.

Soviet behavior regarding the killing and deportation of civilians as well as reprisals can readily compare with the Germans and in raping and pillaging, far exceed them.

[Orosius]

I don’t see any Nazi regalia on the guy in either photo, just Wehrmacht uniform and insignia. Looks like he just served in the German regular army, period.

[MotorCityBuck]

I’ve had many drinks with German POW’s at various German restaurants / bars in Detroit over the years. (The Dakota Inn) John R & McNichols.
Most captured early in the war (North Africa)
Most were engineers who worked at GM.

I also dated a gal whose father was a Stuka pilot. Shot down 5 times.
He was happy when the Americans captured him. 😉

[Mr. Blond]

Sounds like he was Wehrmacht.