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My grandfather used to say “and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel” and I never knew what it meant until after he died. My grandmother explained that some magazine did a fluff interview with Magda Goebbels a few years before WW2 that included her strudel recipe. My grandfather, who hated the Nazis with the passion of 10,000 suns, thought it was an example of the media sanitizing evil people and he would use the phrase when someone asked him to overlook a bad person doing bad things and focus on the good.¹

At this time I think it’s important we share these stories.

1. The above was originally written by, or is commonly attributed to, Twitter user @NickFrank40 | Minor grammatical changes were made to the original however nothing that would change or obscure the meaning.