Nazis etc
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- exador10
I'm mixed...dad is Canadian, mom is from Germany...
I'm 37 yrs old, and have grandparents that fought on either side of the equation...
both are awesome guys...
my Opa in germany is truly an amazing guy...
he was an officer in the german army (used to fire the anti aircraft guns) and a lot of folks may not know this, but once you were in the army, if you rose to officer level, you were automatically inducted/name entered into the nazi party.....
i guess it'd be like, if you were in the army in the U.S., if you became an officer, you suddenly had to be a republican....that sort of thing....anyhow, so yeah....he was a nazi officer....
he and a few friends devised a system of speeding up the loading and firing of the antiaircraft cannons, and it was so succesful, the army paid them for it, and sent them around teaching it to all the other battalions ....
towards the end of the war, as the fronts were starting to push into germany, he took all his men up into the mountains and said basically 'ok...we are FUCKED....we're not going to win this one....it's over....and (he pointed) 'that' way is switzerland...so get the fuck out of here before you all get killed.then, once his men were safely running away, he walked down the mountain himself..but unfortuantely in the wrong direction it seems...
he ran right into an american division...he spent the next year and a half or so in a Yankee POW camp....my Oma and my mom on the other hand, survived (barely, and luckily) the fire bombing of Dresden....
there are some very amazing stories in my family about the war, but mainly the ones from germany...
and the post-war ones are just as good...:)
ex