'Israel' supporting German actress uncovers father’s Nazi past while researching family history

German actress Uschi Glas has revealed a shocking chapter of her family history in a forthcoming book, uncovering that her father, Christian Glas, had ties to the Nazi Party and the Waffen-SS.

The discovery hit Glas particularly hard because she has spent decades advocating for the legitimacy and existence of 'Israel'. When she commissioned the genealogist, she had even hoped to find Jewish ancestors. Instead, she shares the experience of many Germans born after World War II, who discovered that mothers, fathers, grandmothers, and grandfathers, after years of silence, had been followers, or even collaborators, of Nazi criminals.

Glas has long cited her father’s advice as the most important guidance of her life. “‘You have to be able to look in the mirror at night,’ my father always said, over and over again. That sentence was his credo. Because he couldn’t do it himself?” she recalled.

Yet when questioned about his past, he remained silent. “To my many questions about his role in the Nazi state and in World War II, he only said, ‘You don’t understand.’ And yes, in that regard, he was right. I truly don’t understand what I am learning now, more than 80 years after the end of the war.”

Glas, now 81, ultimately felt compelled to confront the truth herself. She learned that her father joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in December 1931 at age 18 and later served as a radio operator in the Waffen-SS’s Skanderbeg Division in 1944. While the division had a documented history of war crimes and deportations of Jews, these acts occurred before Christian Glas’s assignment, and there is no evidence of his personal involvement.

“That was the truth that hurts. But I wanted to know it. I no longer wanted to suppress it,” Glas told Bild.