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"The German government also decided to commemorate the Holocaust in more physical ways. The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, commissioned by the Bundestag (German parliament) in 1999, was completed and opened in 2005. This controversial monument is located just one block south of the iconic Brandenburg Gate in central Berlin."
How Germany remembers the Holocaust
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WWII World War Two
Germany
World History
Military History
What Would You Do
Posted 5 y ago
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I have beer to Dachu and Bergen Belsen. Both will really make you think just what humans can do to each other and what humans can do.
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PO2 Robert M.
My best friend's Mother was from Germany, and during the war, she went to the GI's for scraps of food and old cigarettes (for her father, she would re-roll the old tobacco). Her father was against the NAZI regime, and his punishment was to delouse the dead people prior to their cremation. I could not sleep for days after she told me what she went through as a child because of that fanatical monster!!
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SSG Byron Howard Sr
PO2 Robert M. I hear you I'm glad I was not there. When I was in Stuttgart there was an old guy who worked at the O Club he had a string of numbers on his arm.
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Capt Daniel Goodman
I had occasion to chat with the daughter of a member of !y uncle:s WW2 Army unit, the 3118th Signal Svc Battalion/Grp, her Dad might well have known my uncle, not were there for the German surrender, after it happened, her Dad was apparently spoken with by Gen. Bradley, who'd said to him, "Well, it:s finally over"... I just figured you all might find that an interesting anecdote...her Dad had a ticker tape of the surrender announcement she gave her nephew, who'd gone USAF...I'd chatted with her as my uncle had helped send the Telex of the surrender, and also swiped a copy, my cousins still have it in a safe deposit box....
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As a single man in Heidelberg in the mid-60's I dated a few young German ladies. One lived with her Grandmother. A lovely, gentle lady. The young lady was born after the war. She knew little of it and her grandmother would not speak of it.
Another young lady I dated lived with her parents. She also was born after the war. Her father, however, served in the Luftwaffe. Interestingly, he flew 109s in the west. Almost every German war veteran I met and spoke to all claimed they did not fight against the Americans but fought the Russians. My lady friend's father admitted he fought against the Americans. He was pretty cool though. On Sunday afternoons I would get an invitation to supper. While the women were fixing the meal, he would take me down to the local Gasthaus where we would meet with his friends and other men from the neighborhood, sit and drink Bier and Korn. By supper time I usually had a pretty good buzz. When he had a few drinks he would talk a little about the war, but not much. He did seem to have a strong respect for the American military. We never discussed the camps.
Another young lady I dated lived with her parents. She also was born after the war. Her father, however, served in the Luftwaffe. Interestingly, he flew 109s in the west. Almost every German war veteran I met and spoke to all claimed they did not fight against the Americans but fought the Russians. My lady friend's father admitted he fought against the Americans. He was pretty cool though. On Sunday afternoons I would get an invitation to supper. While the women were fixing the meal, he would take me down to the local Gasthaus where we would meet with his friends and other men from the neighborhood, sit and drink Bier and Korn. By supper time I usually had a pretty good buzz. When he had a few drinks he would talk a little about the war, but not much. He did seem to have a strong respect for the American military. We never discussed the camps.
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