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Ah, this explains that the candidate has been a #BlueDog . It doesn't seem coincident that this finance chair working with her.

Seems more likely they just read the post tbh.

My “my grandpa was a German who fled to Brazil after WW2 “ t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions not actually answered by my t-shirt.

I have no horse in the mcmorrow Stevens race, but to use this against one of the candidates when she also raised money for the other candidate as well, even after the post, seems disingenuous and kind of disrespectful of nazi victims.

Wat

That's certainly a big change. Perhaps the biggest.

Am I celebrating him? Can you read?

a LOTTA white queers rn are failing abjectly to remember Ernst Röhm nazis tolerate useful gays riiiight up until they don't

“People can change” “But he was not a Nazi” So what was the change?

No clean hands there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of...

Huh, interesting hat... wonder if we can zoom and enhance on what appears to be a bird logo...?

Wow. He didn't murder his own granddaughter for being gay. What a great guy.

Saving this for the inevitable attacks on El-Sayed for being "antisemitic" because he's Muslim.

Just a girl who loves her (Nazi) grandpa

Uhhh.. not good

my husband's grandparents were involved in the goings-on in austria (nobody important) and neither of them "fled" the country after either, and were not jailed or punished otherwise i agree with you that the fleeing is its own testament

gotta say i did not expect the 2026 democratic senate primary campaigns to have so many nazi problems

This is “my grandpa died in Auschwitz, he fell off a guard tower” but actually sincere

The most offensive part of this is her (either feigned or actual) ignorance and inability to understand that he fought FOR THE NAZIS whether he was in SS or Wehrmacht. The "you can't call him a Nazi" when he was IN THE NAZI ARMY is some truly insane shit

Love the “he was standing in front of barracks built by the ‘Reich Labor Service’”. Reich labor service? Who would that consist of? Best case it was forced labor by Germans.

They did detain/process enemy combatants from WWII until 1954. So maybe Opa was a Nazi, huh.

When you're arguing about which specific Nazi insignia was on Gramps' uniform you've already lost. It's not her fault her grandfather was a Nazi, but this ridiculous defense is on her.

"Clean Wehrmacht" is such a fucking lie!

If your argument about your grandfather’s culpability hinges on the distinction between different branches of the Nazi army, I think you’ve already lost

It’s wild! One said “you should be proud of your German ancestry…” I mean, a bit of shame is in order.

Hahahaha

The Clean Wehermacht Theory is foundational Holocaust denial.

Having listened to "The Reich at War" by Richard Evans (part of a trilogy, with "The Coming of the Reich" and "The Reich in Power" preceding it) and...christ, it's a lot. I knew about the Death Squads, but I didn't realize that was only scratching the surface of what the Wehrmacht were doing.

Also, that's not a grunt's uniform. You can't see the epaulettes in full, but I'm pretty sure that makes him at least a junior officer.

Isn't the clean wehrmacht myth literally Holocaust denial?

Yes, but. The Kriegsmarine held POW's and slave laborers, as well as the Luftwaffe. Also, they committed war crimes in combat.

The Wehrmacht was clean. THE WEHRMACHT WAS CLEANNNNN!!!!

Nice.

That 'clean Wehrmacht' theory has been rebutted since the 1990's. jlreddin.medium.com/the-wehrmach...

And aside from that, what reason is there to think her grandfather wasn't a Nazi? He was apparently an officer in the Wehrmacht. How many officers were not party members?

It is true that the Wehrmacht was not involved in the concentration and extermination camps. That's not an assertion that they were innocent of any war crimes.

FFS

“He was only a JV Nazi”

The sordid history of the clean Wehrmacht myth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of...

My “Members of the Wehrmacht were not responsible for guarding extermination camps” t shirt is raising many questions already answered by my t shirt

The Wehrmacht guarded Soviet POWs in conditions equivalent to concentration camps

🙄spare me the old “he was in the Wehrmacht, not the SS” routine. This was debunked in Germany in the 1980s. For those just learning about this German memory politics debate, it’s like the Americans who insist their gggrandpa was an honorable Confederate soldier, not a puppet of slaveholders.

Ah, to be loved as much as Nazis love the clean Wehrmacht myth.

Why didn’t she just say, “Yes my grandfather fought for the Germans. No I don’t agree with what he did.” And be done with it. This long winded speech/explanation kind of made it worse in my opinion? But that’s me.

He fought for Germany and escaped to Brazil after the war and he’s not a nazi? That’s odd.

"In this house we support the wehrmacht" 😳😬😐

“from years ago” bitch it was less than 2 years ago

I love how she constantly gets equally as mad that he is called a nazi as that he was called an ss member. Ma'am. He was in the "German army" in world War ii. Thats a nazi! No one needs to apologize for calling your nazi grandpa a nazi even before we get into the escaped to Brazil part.

The Reich Labor service - where did the Reich source its labor, I wonder?

Escaped what, Kelly? What dod he escape exactly?

Yikes

A lovable Nazi. Yay!

my austrian husband's grandfather was a nazi & his grandmother was a concentration camp secretary. and yet he would never write glowingly like that about them, even tho his grandmother was the only relative he really had a good relationship with as a child. he's deeply conflicted & angry about it.

WHAT?! jfc

A flex amongst some.

What’s the bird on his hat carrying?

What did you do in the war grandad? 🙄

Wait til she pulls out a confederate great grandfather or something on memorial day

Incredible "fought against the Soviets in WW2" energy.

holy shit lol what did he expect??

Also Grandpa Neumann:

Weren't enemy combatants forbidden from emigrating? Like this is an actual case where this Nazi should not have been let in.

things you could not get me to post with a seasoned team at guantanamo, and she's gonna probably make us the bad guys for not celebrating his growth from bad nazi to good nazi. I fucking hate it here

Yikes

For BRIEF moment if you've only looked at the pic you might think, "OK, well that's really bad but it does say 1938 on the pic so, maybe..." but NOPE, it's just as bad as it looks!

Nazis are okay as long as they don't support economic populism or the working class.

"My nazi Grampa actually loved his family. He was a good man to me"

Cute story, Kelly, gotta wonder how many people with pink triangles on their shoulders got transported to the camps under Grandpa Neumann’s watch. 🤔🤔

He was from a wealthy family, high ranked government member since 1933, boss of SS and never got convicted for anything. One of those that didn't go to Nürnberg but the family mysterious pops op in the USA afterwards. Or Argentina. Usual they were the too important to kill people

He convenient whipped out his ancestry as he came in the USA according to heritage research tools. No family mentioned or nothing.

For who's following: to actually find out who her ancestry *maps* Check her father's and grandfather's occupation, the higher they were ranked the more chance they ended up high profile probably in government (lesson from history) If you find something about travels the origin city is what u need

En nit alle Duitsche zehen er einsig oet heur

LOL

This was literally a joke in “The Office” 20 years ago Now people in politics are doing it. I’m not a “simple answers for complex questions” guy but this feels like indirect cultural influence from X to me.

In the dang uniform and everything? Lol

Ummm

Sure? but it’s a weird stretch to try and celebrate him on Veterans Day when he fought on the *Nazi* side. Like it literally shouldn’t be a day about him or anyone else from that side.

lmao incredible

Is it possible she doesn't know what the symbol on his hat is? I hear that can happen.