re: #328 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Had one grown up in it, one might easily have come to see it as a worthy cause. I cannot judge people from history for doing what they did, even if I disagree with it from my modern point of view.

I do not want to think about what it would have been like to have been born in the 20’s in Germany and grow up as a youth/teenager under the Nazi regime.

Christopher Walken was on Finding Your Roots… he was born and raised in Queens NY, by a father who emigrated from Germany in the 1920’s and refused to ever discuss the family he’d left. Not a word. Total mystery to Walken, and wanting to find out was why he agreed to be on the show.

Bad news. Dad’s brothers were high-ranking SS officers, murdered about a thousand Jews each, and were hanged at Nuremberg. Christopher might have been happier never having to know that.