Matt Easton is not the greatest orator of all time, a lot of tangents upon tangents upon tangents. However this is still a good point well made and an excellent response to the more and more vocal nationalists and race purists in Europe.
As someone of mixed Germanic/Slavic ancestry who in WW2 had relatives both in SS Waffen* and in Totaleinsatz I can only nod in agreement.
*For the sake of completeness the story as said by my mother:
One of my grandmother’s cousins was conscripted in Wehrmacht and during the war he got transfer order to SS Waffen. That is an offer one cannot refuse, so he has swallowed a bullet, because he just could not follow the orders anymore. However there is no doubt in my mind that I had relatives on that side of the family who fought and slaughtered for the Führer quite happily.
My maternal maternal great grandma had ten kids. Some of those kids fought for the Spanish Republic. Some had their husbands murdered in the KZs. In fact, my grandparents met when my great grandparents visited one of their daughters in French emigration where my grandpa and his family also had fled to.
And one of my grandma’s brothers was a Nazi who would happily have murdered his own family.
My grandma never spoke to him in her entire life and didn’t go to his funeral. She always acknowledged her nieces and nephews, though.