Claim: Donald Tusk's grandfather was a German SS officer.
Fact-check: Donald Tusk's grandfather was not in the SS - Full Fact
Verdict: incorrect. his grandfather was polish and was arrested by the nazis in 1939. he was made a forced labourer, then imprisoned, and was then conscripted into the armed forces of nazi germany in 1944.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Grace Rahman
Date published: 2019-03-08T00:00:00