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Podcast: Dan Snow's History Hit
Episode: 'My Grandfather, the Wehrmacht General in Russia'
Description: Angela Findlay was determined to find out if her grandfather, Karl von Graffen, was a Nazi and what he did on the Eastern front. An artist and speaker, Angela spent her youth feeling a constant sense of guilt and shame but couldn't figure out why. It wasn't until her 40s that she turned to her German roots and discovered that she was enmeshed in the horrors of Nazi Germany and the Second World War.She knew her German grandfather had been a Wehrmacht general in the Second World War but never really understand what that meant...