If you found out you were blood related to a Nazi concentration camp guard who killed many?
2007-09-27 04:27:28 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Nothing. What could I do about. If you go back far enough I'm sure there are evil people in almost every body's bloodline........
2007-09-27 04:29:57 · answer #1 · answered by Brian 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I just answered your other question related to this, so I see why you ask this.
As I wrote in my other answer and as most people wrote here, you are not responsible for what your ancestors did.
But I understand that it troubles you. My grandfather was a member of the Nazi Party and of the German order police. I couldn't find out exactly what he did then. It seems that he was not a Holocaust perpetrator, but was still someone who actively helped to keep the Nazi rule up. So although I don't have a former concentration camp guard in my family, I can understand your situation a bit.
There's not that much you can do, but I'd say it would help to speak about it. I see from your other question that you are afraid of the reaction of your friends if they come to know that and that you experienced a very negative reaction from someone you told. I would not run from that but confront it and maybe study more about how your relatives became like that. I say that because it seems to me that you are somehow afraid there was something bad "in the blood" or that something of them was in you somehow, but these people were raised in a totally different time and place that made them become so.
I would also suggest you to read about Katrin Himmler, a grandniece of Heinrich Himmler, because I think she deals with her terrible ancestry in a very remarkable way. She confronts it so bravely while she has a Jewish husband and calls her granduncle the worst mass murderer of all times. She wrote a book titled The Himmler Brothers about her criminal family and also about how she deals with it.
By the way I like it that you take this serious and don't just say "so what", it shows that you have moral senses.
2007-09-27 16:53:00 · answer #2 · answered by Elly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although we look upon "Nazi concentration camp guards" as the lowest form of life, we have to remember the times.
Not to call them innocent but;
There was a strong propergander machine
No internet to check out opinion, no reliable news
Choices were limited, you were on the team or what?
A mob attitude
Again not a defense, but we all have the potential to be cruel and barbaric under the right circumstances
2007-09-27 11:38:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. You are not responsible for the actions of your parents or grandparents. However, if there were a criminal warrant out for his or her arrest, I would notify the authorities.
2007-09-27 11:30:27 · answer #4 · answered by CHARITY G 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If they're still alive having escaped detection? Turn them in. Some things are more important than blood.
2007-09-27 11:30:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Nothing. You can't choose your family, or correct the mistakes that your ancestors made. All that you can do is learn from it, and leave it alone.
2007-09-27 11:31:11 · answer #6 · answered by Michelle H 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
not worry about it, you can't change ythe past and if you are not like that person then be happy and move forward, don't look back...
you are not responsible for what someone else did many years ago...
2007-09-27 11:30:37 · answer #7 · answered by n_maritz 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Nothing....really there isnt anything you could do....although i would advise against shouting it from roof top to roof top!
2007-09-27 11:35:05 · answer #8 · answered by tll 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do you want us to say? That we would apologize to all Jewish people. I don't think so. I will not apologize fro something I did not do.
2007-09-27 11:50:28 · answer #9 · answered by grumpyoldman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. Never met him. Doesn't matter now.
2007-09-27 11:30:48 · answer #10 · answered by Flatpaw 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋