But in this day and age with info at our fingertips, they can no longer hide under rugs.
...if our administrations let us.
I think there were not so many grandchildren of SS men, and only few of them close to their grandfathers. Most of the SS men were too young to have grandchildren, and it was war, so some hundred thousands died. But of course they were many, about 840,000 men (+ 900,000 Waffen-SS at the end of the war).
Before I found this forum I thought it was a german particularity that the war generation didn't talk about the war time, perhaps because they lost the war or because they felt guilty. I have heard my grandfahter only once speaking about that time. But here I read so often that also for example the VI corps combat engineer veterans did not like to talk about their active time.
Some months ago I saw a TV documentation "Hitler's children" by Chanoch Ze'evi about descendents of Nazi leaders, and there were some who let themselves sterilize to prevent more descendents, like Bettina Göring now living in Santa Fe and her brother.
I just found it on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qdwr-YbJNs
Christoph