Austrian man finds out his grandfather was a Nazi in just a few clicks. He's encouraging others to do the same

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Old, black and white photograph of a mustachioed man in a suithttps://i.cbc.ca/ais/8f3ad4f3-b19a-48c8-ac43-441590d88e83,1776976476301/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C714%2C3024%2C1701%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29" title="Austria's Christian Rainer used a new online tool to discover that his grandfather, Franz Rainer (1886-1961), was a card-carrying member of the Nazi Party." width="620" />

Thanks to a new online tool from the German newspaper Die Zeit, it only took Christian Rainer a few seconds to confirm what he'd long suspected — his grandfather was a card-carrying member of the Nazi Party.

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