People online are trying to paint him as a Nazi sympathizer because of him being a former Hitler Youth member, completely ignoring the fact that:
1. Even the Wikipedia article mentions that he was an unenthusiastic member, and that both he and his family hated the Nazis even back then
2. Membership in the Hitler Youth was mandatory for all German boys past a certain age, so OF COURSE he's gonna be a "former Hitler Youth member"
What I hate the most about people who knowingly or unknowingly peddle misinformation, is that by the time people start to actually CORRECT the misinformation, tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands of people have already seen it, and left believing that it was true