Advertisement [Commentary] My Nazi grandfather wanted to cleanse his legacy. What his story tells me about this historical moment When I think about the moment we are in, my thoughts return to a book bound in green linen. It was the only thing my grandfather, a Nazi and SS officer stationed in eastern Europe throughout WWII, left to his son. Entitled "Unternehmen Barbarossa ," it was a post-war account of Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 written by Paul Karl Schmidt, once the Third Reich’s chief press spokesperson and one of its most important propagandists, who after...