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Being of Polish Jewish stock I shall never unsee the glass cabinets full of spectacles and shoes of children in Auschwitz - don't ever ask me to forgive the Krauts as the simple fact is they are easily led and to this day love a uniform.
They had destroyed my Fathers family before his eyes so he walked to France, hitched a ride across the channel on a French boat (even then they could be bought for a bottle of scotch) and fronted up at the nearest RAF Station letting them know he wanted to fly a Spitfire and kill Krauts as he was 16 and had already learnt to fly in a Jungmeister ironically in Poland so he got in a Tiger Moth and showed them how it should be flown to the absolute limit side slipping his way in to a three pointer.
His dreams were realised many times over although the pain would never heal for him I'm sure but he thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience and flew up until his untimely death at 64 having instructed hundreds of pupils as a CFI of two Norfolk Flying Groups.
So good luck with the
AfD a little enlightenment for the unknowing..
The Hitler regime inflicted unspeakable suffering on many nations!
Although I was born after the Second World War, I have repeatedly been confronted with it directly in my professional life.
For example, from 1990 onwards, I had an office at the ‘Schule am Bullenhusener Damm’ for several years, and during that time I tried to make young people aware of the atrocities.
Here is some background information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullenhuser_DammOn a personal level, too, the crimes of that era have certainly had an impact on me:
In Germany, there is the term ‘Kriegsenkel’ (war grandchild).
I first heard this term a few years ago.
It took several more years before I recalled a sentence I’d heard from my mother as a young boy: ‘When we fled across the frozen lagoon back then’ (‘escape across the Frische Haff’).
This experience of a little 11-year-old girl in January/February 1945 explains a great deal.
(Flight, winter (-20°), fear of the approaching Russian soldiers...)
I have now learnt through conversations that many other people (often even younger than me) have also been shaped by their parents’ traumatic experiences.
These experiences have not necessarily allowed the childhoods of generations following the Second World War to unfold in a positive way...
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