Chelsea Handler, whose favorite pastime is shouting abuse at conservatives on Twitter, often calling them Nazis, was just informed on TV that her grandfather was an actual Nazi.
In a new episode of TLC’s Who Do You Think You Are, Chelsea Handler discovers exactly what role her grandfather, Karl Stoecker, played in World War 2, and the history of her family.
Quivering and shaking after being told the news, Handler traces his path from Nazi soldier to American immigrant through documents and interviews with sources familiar with her family’s history.
Handler’s story is made all the more compelling by the fact that was she raised Jewish in a family of faith.
‘My father, I guess, made a deal with my mother when they had children that they were gonna be raised Jewish,’ Handler says. ‘So I connect with my Judaism, or the Jewish side of my family, more than anything else.‘
Daily Mail reports: Growing up, Handler had no idea that her grandfather – a ‘very, very strong man‘ she describes as having a ‘sense of humour‘ – had a dark past.
In the episode, she reveals that he was taken as a prisoner of war to America, where he likely stayed in Montana for several years.
‘When he went back to Germany, he was very eager to come and take his family and move them back to the United States,’ Handler says.
But even after the new immigrant family settled down, the subject of wartime Germany was always avoided by her grandfather.
‘My German grandma definitely spoke about her life during the war way more than my grandfather did,‘ Handler says. ‘He never spoke about it.’
That was probably for good reason, but when all is said and done, Handler may now be less willing to label everybody who disagrees with her a ‘Nazi.’
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I guess she just found out a skeleton in her closet, everyone has some, and most are dark, and deserve to stay hidden. She did seem quite distressed at the news.
I am sure she loved her grandpa very much. Of course she had no control over his actions but will always feel a responsibility to claim her grandfathers legacy and hopefully make amends for it in the future.
You cant change the past but you can take steps to right a wrong in the future.
I would encourage her to visit the Anne Frank Museum, and some of the concentration camp museums and the gravesides of Holocaust victims to attone for his actions.
Boston has a beautiful memorial for the victims. and other places do also.
Knowledge will stop hate in its tracks. I would love to say we have evolved so much the unnecessary deaths due to hate will stop and be no more.
I look at the headlines and they are scary. I just have to hope that the lessons I taught my children to love not hate stay strong; and they go on to the next generation and more.
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