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40 Fascinating Facts About the Relatives of Nazis After WWII

Khalid Elhassan March 14, 2019 24 min

8. Ludin’s Descendants

Ludin’s family preferred to remember him as an innocent Nazi, who was ignorant of the fate awaiting the thousands of Jews he got deported. They dismissed evidence to the contrary as fake news, and described Ludin and his place in the grand scheme of things as “Small fry – who cares?“. It was only in the generation of his grandchildren that Ludin’s descendants began coming to terms with the legacy of their ancestor, who might have been small fry compared to better-known Nazis, but who was nonetheless responsible for the deaths of thousands. Today, his granddaughter Alexandra Sennft, is a journalist and writer, active in fighting political extremists.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.