He was told his relative tried to kill Hitler. The truth was much more complicated

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An assassination plot, a grand family castle, a man in uniform — the family tales Johan heard growing up lead him on a search for the truth that takes him to some of the darkest chapters of the 20th century.

Johan Gabrielsson was six when he was told that one of his relatives tried to kill Hitler.

It would be decades before Johan learned the truth behind that story — the search for his family's history taking him to some of the darkest chapters of the 20th century.Johan grew up in Sweden, and remembers family gatherings with members of his maternal grandmother's side of the family, the Sodensterns.But every time he asked his mother's uncle Lennart about him, he was told: "Next time you come, I tell you the story.

Historian Pontus Ragnö tells Johan the Sodensterns of hundreds of years ago were a family of traders and soldiers who lived in the part of Northern Germany that then belonged to Sweden.Mr Ragnö says the family most likely got its knighthood after lending money to Sweden's King.

 

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PanzerShock The Holocaust is the biggest fraud that has ever been perpetrated on mankind

Any difference between Chancellor Hitler eliminating Jews and Captain Cook who wanted to elimate natives and annex their lands as British as he did of my land here?

Why is this NEWS? Do the ADL pay ABC to run WWII NAZI holocaust articles?

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