Most of what I know about post-Versailles, pre-WW2 Germany comes from an uncle who lived through it and fought for the Germans in the war. He and my dad became BFF’s after he immigrated to the US and married my moms sister. Pop joined every other high school kid in lying about their ages on December 8, 1941 and enlisted in the Navy. (I don’t think this’d happen these days with the sjw programming but that’s a different discussion). He served on the USS Franklin as a Fireman 1st Class where he was lucky enough to watch most of his buddies burn to a crisp. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S3VerJ5abgA
I digress though. To make a long story short, and believe me it could be looooooong as Unc, as I called him, blathered of little else in his last years when he was starting to lose his marbles, he thoroughly LOVED growing up under Hitlers National Socialism before the war. Everyone worked, had nice houses and apartments, vacationed, neighborhood fitness and self improvement groups, art and culture, organized youth sports, concerts, and on and on.
He took on a father’s role to me for 20+ years my after pop passed young and suddenly. News and documentaries (which were switched off immediately) made his blood boil. He KNOWS that (at least) half of what we see and hear about that time period is flat out propaganda because he was there.
In a weird karmic anomaly, we lost Unc on the very day I retired from the army, but his stories will live on forever and I’ll spread them to anyone who will listen. Most people won’t though, and have an immediate, pre-programmed, visceral reaction to anything related to Germany during that time period. I’m immediately labeled a traitor, white supremacist or holocaust denier or or or or or, which is completely idiotic as I put in 22 years as crew chief, was in 4 wars and earned a chest full of commendations for this country. People just don’t want to know the truth, which is sad.
Sort if this was a bit wordy, but it’s one of my favorite subjects
I'd love to hear all his stories! I've only heard what I was told in schools as well as what my grandma told me. She is German, her and my grandpa met in Germany (he from the USA). I've always found German history intriguing due to family being from there.
Most of what I know about post-Versailles, pre-WW2 Germany comes from an uncle who lived through it and fought for the Germans in the war. He and my dad became BFF’s after he immigrated to the US and married my moms sister. Pop joined every other high school kid in lying about their ages on December 8, 1941 and enlisted in the Navy. (I don’t think this’d happen these days with the sjw programming but that’s a different discussion). He served on the USS Franklin as a Fireman 1st Class where he was lucky enough to watch most of his buddies burn to a crisp. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S3VerJ5abgA
I digress though. To make a long story short, and believe me it could be looooooong as Unc, as I called him, blathered of little else in his last years when he was starting to lose his marbles, he thoroughly LOVED growing up under Hitlers National Socialism before the war. Everyone worked, had nice houses and apartments, vacationed, neighborhood fitness and self improvement groups, art and culture, organized youth sports, concerts, and on and on.
He took on a father’s role to me for 20+ years my after pop passed young and suddenly. News and documentaries (which were switched off immediately) made his blood boil. He KNOWS that (at least) half of what we see and hear about that time period is flat out propaganda because he was there.
In a weird karmic anomaly, we lost Unc on the very day I retired from the army, but his stories will live on forever and I’ll spread them to anyone who will listen. Most people won’t though, and have an immediate, pre-programmed, visceral reaction to anything related to Germany during that time period. I’m immediately labeled a traitor, white supremacist or holocaust denier or or or or or, which is completely idiotic as I put in 22 years as crew chief, was in 4 wars and earned a chest full of commendations for this country. People just don’t want to know the truth, which is sad.
Sort if this was a bit wordy, but it’s one of my favorite subjects
I'd love to hear all his stories! I've only heard what I was told in schools as well as what my grandma told me. She is German, her and my grandpa met in Germany (he from the USA). I've always found German history intriguing due to family being from there.