From: Monica Drake (erdahl@IDIRECT.COM)
Date: Tue Feb 29 2000 - 15:03:23 PST
There were three degrees of Nazi > then, pre-1939 which was considered hard core, the war period, when some were > drafted without much enthusiasm, and then those who really had very little > involvement at all, but were still connected. Thank you for your responses. I guess my inquiry is linked to another piece of information I just learned yesterday, which is that my mother has both her grandparents Ariernachweis's or Ahnenpass's. Both go back 5 generations. These documents are very hard to find any information about, but I was told (I don't know how reliable) that most people had to go back 3 generations and that the closer you were involved with the SS, the more information you had provide. I am wondering if my Guncle's involvement with the HJ is the reason for the 5 generations. I know his mother (my grandmother) was very hostile towards the soldiers and the family pretty much had to keep her in the house for her own safety, the town's children would be sent to get food, etc. So, I am trying to put together a complete picture of what was happening at the time and since my mother was just a toddler at the time, she can't recall too much. I will keep digging into this and again thank you for the responses. Monica Erdahl Drake erdahl@idirect.com Alberta, Canada