Chelsea Handler confronts her grandfather's rumoured Nazi past! | WDYTYA (US)

Media mogul Chelsea Handler confronts her grandfather's rumoured Nazi past; details are unearthed that will finally confirm or deny his affiliation.

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[lewisdarne]

Big deal. He was just a soldier like millions of others.

[CountryFenderBass]

As an amateur genealogist I find it fascinating that people get so upset over things people did in the past. I had a guy who wanted to prove that the family did not have slaves in the 1800s. I started to work and quickly found out that the family story was true and his family owned 6 slaves. He was so upset and kept saying “I don’t know what to do with this” I said that you didn’t know those people, they have no affect on your life or anyone else’s life today. History is nothing more than past life’s and the choices those people made. The norms back then do not reflect the norms today. But to be upset over something someone did 80 to 250 years ago is silly.

[Rainy_Day]

We aren’t responsible for the sins of our fathers.

[businessreport]

They didn’t manage to get them translated? This weird mythical language, German. You can literally take a photo of the document with your phone and press translate.

[Blt-rrlm]

This is why people who want reparations for oppressed groups of the past are out to lunch.

[sacradotjoannes]

For a brother who knows about history, you would think he would try and do at least a rudimentary translation?

[Alice-jzti]

I don’t know why I’m not surprised by this.

[sandybeach]

We are not to take on the burden of history, only learn and never forget.

[renniejohnson]

Interesting as my maternal grandfather left Germany before WWI- going first to England and then to the US. His two brothers served in WW1 and the eldest one killed in France. They were children of a middle class farmer and lived on the farm until after WW2 when it became a cooperative under the East German rule. Stories told about the time near then end of WW2 until the fall of the Berlin Wall from letters and my grandfather visiting were of privation, loss of rights, and poverty.

[vlady]

Hey, at some point in time we all had relatives that were a part of some wars and conflicts. Every single one of us.

[polyphonics]

We are not here to judge history with the social rules of the present. We are here to learn from the past regardless or whether it was entertaining or horrific. What we learn from the past we can use in the present to build a better future but we cannot change the past and we cannot judge the past and we cannot be responsible for the past. There will be a time in the future when people might want to judge us now and we wouldn't appreciate that. Different generations see things differently and no one generation get's everything correct or lives without flaws. Judging people of the past without living in their era is probably one of the rudest and most ill-informed things you can do to the memory of people who lived their lives before you.

[gnostic]

Interesting how so many people are attempting to historically revise their family's pasts when they were on the wrong side of history.

[ejluczak]

You wonder where she gets her disregard for human life.

[saltireeire]

Anyone else thinking google translate would’ve saved some time?

[dennishall]

I have debated her on Facebook! She is very uneducated!

[aconsideredopinion]

Interesting that the British never apologized for the thousands of women and children that they murdering concentration camps in South Africa during the bore war 0r how people from the Belgium never apologized for the millions of Africans murdered by Belgium citizen in the Congo or the countless thousands who were murdered by poison gas in Lydia and Ethiopia by Italians or even the countless thousand murdered by the French in Algeria

[ronaldvandercruyssen]

Every german that time where in the party…if they where not they had the risk to be persecuted.

[aixcracker]

A bit sad that folks don't know their grandparents. And seemingly have a quite poor understanding of the history.

[jenniferlevine]

This is horrifying. I don't think this should have been presented this way. It's not a soap opera. I can't imagine where you are going with this.

[antidoteify]

2:26 the green lieflet is a grade, performance book; "leistungsbuch" .