[bill1952]

Does he have any extended African family that he could pretend were marching on Hitler's bunker after liberating Buchenwald by some Kenyan army?

IMO, they cannot keep spinning this, so they are going to the next step. MoveOn.

[Melinda]

With no conventional family unit to speak of, grandmothers who are not related by blood but by marriage, like grandpa’s #3 wife, are easy to produce. All are relatives of convenience to fit the speech of the day in order to connect to the group of the moment! Grandma - mothers, uncle - Jews, etc. etc.