German magazine Bild reported that German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock’s grandfather was a Wehrmacht officer and an “ardent supporter of Nazism.”
Bild magazine has published documents from the Wehrmacht archives which reveal that Colonel Waldemar Baerbock (1913-2016) not only served as an engineer in an anti-aircraft gun repair unit, but was also an “unqualified National Socialist”.
According to the dossier, he was a devoted follower of the ideology, had read Hitler’s Mein Kampf and was fully committed to National Socialism. In 1944 he was awarded the high honour of the “Cross of Military Merit” with swords.
“Waldemar Baerbock was not just an officer, but an ardent supporter of Nazism,” Bild explained, citing the surfaced dossier of the ancestor of the country’s foreign policy chief.
The dossier characterises the German officer Berbock as a tough and ruthless member of the Nazi party.
The magazine noted that the foreign minister often shared stories about his grandfather at memorial events and highlighted lessons learnt from his wartime fate. Representatives of the Ministry of foreign Affairs said that Baerbok herself “was not familiar with these documents”.
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