Talk:Walther Sommerlath

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Nazi???[edit]

It is true WS was a member of the Nazi party, but referring him as an active Nazi is not correct. He worked for the Swedish steel group Uddeholm, and after the war he worked for Uddeholm in its office in Brazil. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.63.146.199 (talk • contribs)

Hello Mr Anonymous Editor. If someone is a member of the Nazi-party (joined as early as 1934 and remained a member of the party during the war), I think it is correct to call that person a Nazi. Bronk 22/3 2006.

PS. The swedish wikipedia article on WS is very well sourced on this issue.

While WS was a member of the Nazi party, as proved by his marriage to a Brazilian, he did not agree with the party on the issues of nationalism or racial superiority.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.52.241.192 (talk • contribs)

Really? So did Hitler not believe his own Nazi principles because he'd worked with Jews and allied with Japan? Or were the Nazis just full of it? Or is it that there's no incompatibility between the Nazi beliefs and Sommerlath's marriage to that Brazilian lady (white like him, btw). So many questions... SamEV (talk) 17:58, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is nothing written about that he did not agree on the party's issues on nationalism or racial superiority. If you have such information please come forward as I believe the King and Queen of Sweden desperatly want the world to know such facts. The only thing we have is that he became member very early though most of his countrymen in Brazil didn't. He moved to Germany just before the war. He overtook a factory from someone who vanished. We don't know anything about the factory. Queen Silvia surely knows but wont tell us. Then he fled back to Brazil after the war. He was a nazi for sure. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.229.199.24 (talk) 16:19, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sommerlath "bought" in April 1939 the company in Kreuzberg of Efim Wechsler (1883-1962), who fled to Brazil. Silvia said her father's company made toys and hair dryers; in fact, it produced war material. /Pieter Kuiper (talk) 10:56, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Genealogy[edit]

Please provide sources on genealogy, specifically birth and families of both partents, if possible. Please also confirm that WS's father was an American. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.52.241.192 (talk • contribs)

"Most Germans in Brazil chose not to be members in the party"[edit]

So did most Germans in Germany. A rather nonsensical sentence, not offering any figures, which incorrectly implies that the contrary was the case in the mother country, Germany, where in fact only a minority (peaking 8 million in 1945, i.e. 10% of the total population) were members of the Nazi party. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.193.95.127 (talk) 15:37, 16 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]