German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock's grandfather was a Wehrmacht officer and a staunch Nazi supporter, the Bild newspaper reports, citing a leaked dossier.
"Annalena Baerbock likes to speak at commemorative events about her grandfather Waldemar (1913-2016) and the lessons she has learned from his wartime fate. The Foreign Minister's grandfather appears in the Wehrmacht dossier: he served in the war as an engineer in an anti-aircraft gun repair unit. There is an assessment in the dossier that Colonel Waldemar Baerbock was not just an officer, but an ardent supporter of Nazism. It literally says that he was an "unqualified National Socialist", that he had read Hitler's book Mein Kampf and that he was "completely on the side of National Socialism", Bild writes.
In 1944, Berbock's grandfather was awarded Hitler's War Merit Cross with swords. The German Foreign Ministry said that the minister was not aware of these "documents".
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