I'm sorry to say.

Membership is likely. They were for certain sympathisers. Grandpa rebeled. He quit the Hitler Youth after his parents forced him to join. He knew it was bullshit. There was a prison camp in the city where he lived. He would steal food and give it to the prisoners through a small opening in the fence. That stopped when he was caught by a neighbor stealing an apple pie she'd put on a cooling rack outside her window.

He was punished for calling Hitler stupid and saying he hated him. I heard from my dad that grandpa defaced Hitler posters by making him look like Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin. I don't know for sure if it's true but I hope is because that's hilarious 😂. Grandpa was a staunch liberal until the day he died. When my grandparents got their citizenship they voted for JFK.

My family came to the US from Germany and Poland at the turn of the century. It would be hard to learn your family was on the other side ☹️

escape religious persecution. I don't believe I'd find anything. I'm not aware of any other German connections in my genealogy. I haven't had admixture tests, aka genetic ancestry analysis done, however.

Interesting post, Nevilledog. Thanks for the discussion. ❤️

wooden shoes and the windmills. When she found out that the Pennsylvania Dutch were actually Germans, she never talked about that part of her ancestory again.

But I did have an uncle who won a Silver Star during the Battle of the Bulge.