Notice that after 767jetz's post, the conversation on the subject of German soldier "unity" basically came to an end.
Notice the number of people who supported his post and how many flagged yours as BS.
Did you happen to miss the part saying his grandfather was NOT a Nazi?
Maybe you also missed the part where his grandfather DID stand up and speak out against the Nazi Party AND his superiors, risking the firing squad to do so, and serving time in confinement for his independent thinking
No one but you would twist it to mean anything else.
many German soldiers were victims of Hitler and the Nazi's
All true points. Don't worry doh nogo, none of that was lost on even the most casual of readers. That is obvious. It's par for the course with him. If he doesn't get a rise out of me, he certainly shouldn't get to you. Consider the source and ignore the little insignificant troll. Name calling is all he's got in that vacant lot he calls a brain.
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You say you know a thing or two about the era. While a bit off topic (maybe not) I'll share another story from the man who lived it, if for no other reason but to illustrate how corrupt people in power betray their own, not just the enemies they declare. My ancestors were Germans who settled as farmers in the 1500's in modern day Slovenia. In a deal with Mussolini, Hitler traded their land away promising equal parcels in "Germany." Unbeknownst to them it was not real German land, but land stolen from Styria. Hitler moved ethnic Slovenians from their homes and into "camps" which amounted to mass prisons, placing Germans like my grandfather, who were lied to and expecting real German land, on their farms. (Come to think of it, kind of like USAPA is taking stolen seniority and giving it to the furloughed AFO's while lying to everyone.)
Knowing this, my grandfather went to the camps, spoke through the fences to the captives, found the owner of the land he was placed on, and explained the situation. He told the family that as far as he was concerned it was still the original family's land, he would work the farm and care for it, and when the war ended he would leave peacefully. Then, at great risk of peril to himself, he would regularly sneak food and provisions to them, until he was drafted and sent to the Russian front. Those Slavs who escaped capture disappeared into the hills and formed a rebel army where they conducted guerrilla tactics against the German army and the families living on their stolen land. It turns out that the son of the man my grandfather was sneaking food to, and the rightful owner of that land, was an officer in the rebel army and ordered the farm and my family be spared any harm due to my grandfather's actions.
When the war ended, the rebels took back their land. My grandmother and her children including my father at 7 years old, fled to the allied run refugee camps in Austria, thinking that my grandfather was KIA. When he returned looking for them, the family who had spared them, took my grandfather in, and gave him safe passage to Austria where he searched camp by camp until he found them. Had it not been for my grandfather's distinction between right and wrong, I would no be here writing this right now.
So when a troll like "you-know-who" casts names like nazi at a man who is the epitome of integrity, and navigated war, ethnic cleansing, real human tragedy, the threat of execution for not toting the party line, stolen ancestral land at the hands of Hitler, Russian POW camps working in Serbian mines, and post war refugee camps, only to successfully emigrate his family safely to the US, all I can do is feel sorry for the ignorant fool.
