Not too much, in a way. He was around 18 when he was in the army near the end of the war, I don’t know (and there’s likely no way to find out now) how willing he was about being there, how much he believed in the ideology, and how much of a choice he had at all (though it surely wouldn’t have been impossible for him to escape and join the partisan resistance, as many others had done), and either way he went through this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleiburg_repatriations so I count that as atonement for whatever crap he might’ve done.
And, well, half a century later, when I came about, he was effectively a different person. I have my own picture of him from one time period, that picture is already wildly different from the picture his children had/have, and adding what he did before all of us is tough to put together into a single picture, at least for me right now. I mean, purely for myself his most important contributions were sparking my interest in natural sciences, showing me a bit about how computers work back when he was the only family member with a computer at home, providing me with formative books (Don Quijote), and (probably unintentionally) making me turn atheist. His past has to be objectively acknowledged, but it necessarily has a different role in my subjective perception of him.
Not too much, in a way. He was around 18 when he was in the army near the end of the war, I don’t know (and there’s likely no way to find out now) how willing he was about being there, how much he believed in the ideology, and how much of a choice he had at all (though it surely wouldn’t have been impossible for him to escape and join the partisan resistance, as many others had done), and either way he went through this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleiburg_repatriations so I count that as atonement for whatever crap he might’ve done.
And, well, half a century later, when I came about, he was effectively a different person. I have my own picture of him from one time period, that picture is already wildly different from the picture his children had/have, and adding what he did before all of us is tough to put together into a single picture, at least for me right now. I mean, purely for myself his most important contributions were sparking my interest in natural sciences, showing me a bit about how computers work back when he was the only family member with a computer at home, providing me with formative books (Don Quijote), and (probably unintentionally) making me turn atheist. His past has to be objectively acknowledged, but it necessarily has a different role in my subjective perception of him.