Finally got to watch this. Very interesting. I wonder what the size of that movement (for lack of a better term) is? You would have to figure that if that guy's grandfather was a fanatical NAZI until the day he died, you would have to figure there were many others of the same fanaticism. You would have to figure that there were plenty of grandchildren who actually believed what their grandfathers said - especially if they were very close to them. It's amazing the impact that one man - Hitler - can have generations down the road.
I also wonder if there is a corresponding movement in Japan. It seems as though in Japan there is an even bigger conspiracy of silence. At least in Germany, the government has tried to claim culpability in many cases, and they don't avoid the fact that they were who they were in the war. The Japanese have tried their best it seems, to pretend that the years 1931 to 1945 did not exist. By the way, this is not something I have gleaned from being here in Okinawa. I really haven't been able to interact with the locals enough to really tell how they feel. I can say that the Battle of Okinawa Memorial Peace Park and its Museum definitely make it known that the Okinawans see themselves as the victims in WWII - first by the Military of the Japanese and then the Americans. This feeling is not wholly unfounded, of course. As an American walking through the Museum, however, you do feel like you are being made to feel like the perpetrator of some past misdeed at times.