Super Mario Rosenstock wises up

MARIO Rosenstock’s grandparents had an extraordinary war.

His grandfather, George Rosenstock, was a German. He served as a young medical officer in the Wehrmacht.

He was called to the Eastern Front, but managed to sidestep its killing fields by getting his friends to break his arm.He washed up instead on the island of Jersey, aged about 23, when he met Rosenstock’s grandmother, a young Irish nurse from Athenry, Co Galway. They fell in love and he took her back to Germany, of all places, as the war was coming to a close.