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Wait, Bernauer is your grandfather? He was killed in the war..

• WalterBright 5y ago
  Yes, on my mother's side. He was too old for the draft, but got pressed into the Volkssturm (old men and boys) to defend Berlin, and was mortally wounded in it. Two pictures I have of him, one with a telescope the other with a microscope. Both sides of my family were nerds :-) He also led a team to Iceland in the 1930s to set some surveying markers to determine if Iceland was expanding, which would prove the continental drift theory. After the war, other researchers went back and confirmed it. I'm kinda sad he died before completing this, and so others got the credit for continental drift.