Can we get one of these threads going? I'll start.
My grandad didn't fight in the war as he was a farmer. He took German POWs and I think he got on well with them. There is no bitterness. The people he hated were the Japs who were seen as cruel and I think he still dislikes them.
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My great Grandfather joined the SS in 1937 and was stationed on a nort west german Airbase. There he got to know my great Grandmother and took her back to vienna after the war. He didn't see any combat during the war.
What did your grandad think of Brits?
My grandmother once gave a German POW a knife to peel an apple with. One of the guards yelled at her saying "why did you give that man a knife"?? My grandmother said "he needed it to peel that apple".
Grandfather didn't fight in the war because his heart problems but fought in 1918 civil war against reds.
My grandfather was in the navy, he was too young to actually fight so I think he drove an ambulance. He died before I was born so I don't know much
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My grandfather was a prisoner of the Japanese on the railway in Thailand. He didn't hold any grudges against the Japanese, he said there were some good ones and some bad ones, and that the guards were starving too by the end. He had no problem buying Japanese electrical goods and so on, and he taught me to count in Japanese. He told me that when the Americans liberated his camp they asked the prisoners which guards had mistreated them and then shot them out of hand.
They were literally starving, over half the men he was with died of disease or malnutrition. He said they used to eat caterpillars off the ground. He still weighed less than six stone when he got home five months later.
My Italian colleague complained how Germans forced his grandfather to eat pervitin and they also injected him with the drug (and probably something else in combination as well).
Grandfather was tank commander in 79th tank division. Near Oder in fight with two tigers shooted one. After it run away hide in a village waited the second to go away and shooted hom too.
Great-grandfather was in the line behind the Maginot line, got fucked up a bit, sent to Germany as a POW to work in a camp. During his time he met a german woman, was released in '45.
He was never vocal about it, almost didn't want to leave Germany. One time during a fight and drunk, he slipped and told my great-grandmother that he fugged her a couple of time, more than enough to get her pregnant. So here I stand thinking I could have some cousins in Germany.
Nu grandfather was a kid in the 40s. Suddenly one morning an RAF pilot came down with a parachute, he pulled his gun and when my granddad approched him he said "where am I? Where am I?" And when he heard he was in Sweden, he was super relieved and holstered his gun. My granddad asked him if he wanted anything but all he wanted was a glas of water. Before he left he gave my granddad a pack of cigarettes, my uncle still has that pack of cigarettes till this day.
My great grandpa died at Pearl Harbor. My grandma told me his last words were "BONZAI!!!" Before crashing into the USS Missouri.
My grandpa was a dentist in a small village. He didn't really care about the war. Sad.
But he remembers that jews had it hard at the time.
>Grandfather fought in the 5. Fallschirmjäger Division against the Americans after his piloting training was halted due to lack of fuel
>attacked the enemy at night with his mortar squad, firing 5-10 grenades per mortar and then gtfo before they were located
>became friends with an American Major after the war he went skeet shooting with
>alive, 92 years old and still antisemite
>other granddad got drafted into the Volkssturm at age 15
>were given the task to ambush American tanks with magnet bombs
>shot one American young man in the stomach during the attack
>told me he dreams of his face a lot
>died in 2009 after smokinh 2 packs of filterless camel every day
My grandpa died in a concentration camp. He fell from a guards tower
What was he doing in Sweden I wonder?
On the jew?
Based grandfathers
my grat grandad was a captain off an aertillery regiment and was the the head of the home gard in his village in ww2 because he was to old to fight
Old but gold
My grandfather served in the Pacific, starting at the age of 17. The only story he told was the first one, about how the first plane they shot down was an american plane that they mis-identified.
We thought it was the funniest thing ever, being about 8 years old. He got pissed and never discussed the war again with us.
grandmother from former east parts of germany told me how russians killed all their animals and raped her mother while she needed to make food for the russians. grandfather told me how russians stomped their door in and smashed the windows and turned out the electricity, then they got forced to leave their house at gunpoint with only the things they wore. Other grandma told me how russians jumped on the trains with which they got deported and how they stole the last things people had and they also raped old people.
Fucking russians, they are no humans.
I think they were supposed to bomb something in northern germany, but they had serious navigation issues and had no idea where they were
>but they had serious navigation issues and had no idea where they were
If you've read Catch-22, you might wonder if they had perfect navigation and knew exactly where they were, and just bailed out to make it look real.
my grandpa served until 1945, when he committed suicide on April 30th, rather than be captured by the Russians
Fucking russians, literally subhumans
Better dead than red
Such is life in ossiland
If you wanted to be captured by anyone it would've been us.
Mother's father was in the HJ, had to dig trenches against the Ruskies when he was 17 back in 1945. His unit never ended up having to fight. He became a miner like his dad and not sure who he voted for in his life... probably left wing.
Mother's mother was 18 in 1945. She waa in the BDM. Started studying in 1945 to become a high school teacher. I think she was apolitical, but talked fondly about her time in the BDM - still knew all he songs and stuff.
Father's father had arm injury when he was a teenager, was ineligible for service in ww1. He was a staunch royalist and later conservative and lawyer. My father said he detested Hitler for his background as a lowly middle class uneducated worker.
My father's mother was an aristocrat's daughter and very conservative. Married my grandfather when she was 20 in 1926. She was very much into the roaring 20s - I got pics of her, a hottie of her time.
The older brother of my mother's brother was very political and loved the Nazis. He was doing bad stuff in the Balkans and then worked as a miner again. Died in the 50s of cancer.
My grandfather was a mine sweeper. One night he had an order to send a message to another Italian post. The officer told him to follow a light in the horizon. While walking the light shut down and he thought he was going to be captured by the Bongs. He found another light that brought him to another Italian post.
Im Hungarian. My grandad was a camp guard. Although I do not know any actual details as he died as I was born.
My grandma was about 7. She hid in the basement as the Russians encroached. A tank rolled through and blew the living fuck out of her house.
My village was a battleground. The Russians set up artillery positions around the mountains and shelled the German and Hungarian positions for days until the general retreat.
My great grandfather was a leading figure in the NSDAP. He was killed off during the night of the long knives in 1933. He was a pretty well known political figure and is even mentioned in the wiki article: en.wikipedia.org
His family left Germany for Switzerland shorty after.
Maybe but I doubt it as he returned to Britain as fast as he could to return to the action
My grandfather was rounded up for the Arbeitseinsatz and became a Butcher in Germany for the Wehrmacht.
My other grandfather was a child and got picked up by German soldiers because they thought he was Jewish (Large nose). He was released the same day and apologised. His father was in the Frisian resistance and never spoke about it after the war.
true lots of germna pilots captured by the british would have stay in brittain after the war and married locals
kek
This. Glad my family always lived only 15 km from the dutch border so we never had to endure subhuman Ivans
Do you know that if you say "better red than dead" in Germany you get charged with a criminal offense on the same level of denying the holocaust?
Based, what was his name?
That's what happens when you start shit with us, motherfuckers. Glory to the Horde!
My Grandfather was a pilot in the swiss air force. He actually never talked about anything beside fooling around on the base with his mates...
I know from the history books and military documents that he was involved in a number of incidents with german as well as later on with allied planes and that he shot down at least two of them.
Great Grandad was a radio guy, hated mexicans and japs. Don't know much else
>Grandma witnessed the firedome over Dresden from about 30km away.
>Grandpa didn't talk about the war, according to my aunts and mother. Died when I was an infant.
>Few years ago, along w/ my redpilling I found out that he served in the Waffen-SS, which was later confirmed by my aunts
>Further research suggests he actually was an officer (Obersturmführer, probably Haupsturmführer) in the "LSSAH"
>Paternal grandfather was a Berlin metal worker who joined NSDAP pre 1933, which suggests that he fought tooth and nail against the Komintern during the big street riots.
All this stuff I found out because being red-pilled. If I had gotten these infos as brainwashed Normie 15 years ago, I would've shamed myself to death. Now I can proudly say that my family was based on both sides and fought the ZOG, even in one of the toughest units of the whole darn shootin' match.
>BONZAI
Little Suicide Tree
>that picture
Kek
Pussy
except you don't
the only reason the Russians were brutal to the Germans because the Germans before them were horrible to there people
Newt time we would be better.
Kek I didn't know that, your country really changed for the worse after WW2, Merkels dicatorship is cancer compared to Hitler's
Grandfather fixed vehicles in Africa campaign, Italy and probably further north as things went on.
Never met him. Very sad.
No first hand stories but we have a photo of him in the desert next to "two gerry fighters shot down over [illegible]. His scrawl on the back dates it feb 21st 42.
My grandad wasn't in WW2, but he was a medevac doctor in Vietnam, which is relevant enough.
Once during a normal extraction his medevac got hit with a lot more small-arms fire than is healthy but was able to land safely back at the field hospital before dying.
This. I only found out recently that my great grandfather was an SA squad leader and probably torched the local synagogue lel
It's weird being a Brit. We can't really support the Nazis because we fought each other but you were doing God's work fighting commies.
Sorry won't say because of anonymity.
You are right. However if you say "With German Greetings" or "Everything for Germany" you get charged.
grandfather fought in ww1 in the trenches with france when he was 16. They used him as cannonfodder at the end of the war when they knew they lost. They put him and other underage conscripts to the frontline - while the officers ran away
In ww2 he was conscripted again, but since he had a quite big farm he was sent home again after short while, to keep the food production running
Russians are literally nigger-tier
Also, the only reason you won was because the US and Brits pumped supplies into your pathetic excuse for an army, and because the US bombed the german industry to pieces
my great uncle was a British airborne trooper in the Sicily campaign
Only if you do it publicly. You can sign your letters with Heil Hitler if you like
That's just awesome
The onle reason because we won is that we are the best.
Poltava)))
great grandfather was resistance member, kidnapped and presumably tortured a SS officer, taking his iron cross. He lived above the mayors house and listened to the meetings, hid jews from razzia's in the 'biesbosch'.
He never really talked about the war but did get a medal and ribbon for his work in the 1980's
Other grandpa was NSB'er and didn't really do anything besides flip right before the canadians liberated us
My grandfather was part of a US mortar squad that fought from North Africa to Berlin.
>mfw he fought for the wrong side
One grandfather was in the navy he survived the sinking of the ship, i don't remember the name, the other grandfather was in Russia working, they lived 15km from eachother at the time
Grandma from my fathers side was a child in occupied Norway, always spoke highly of the Germans and told me that the Germans were nice to her and all the civillians but food was really sparse so they pretty much ate potatoes for 5 years. She also had to learn German in school.
My Grandfather on my mothers side however fought against the germans in the navy, started off running supply boats and later gun boats. I don't know much of what he did or saw, but my mom has a medal he got from the King 20 years after he died, which she is very mad about.
After the war he was ridden with anxiety and became an alcoholic and was put on all kinds of meds. He had PTSD bad and died in the 70's in a dark apartment after a combo of benzos and alcohol.
my grandma ran from japs
Anyway, my story time.
Great grand-father joined retreating Red Army in 1941 (he was 15), and was something like support-help undocumented guy i guess. Had no desire to wait for nazis. When he got finally drafted they made him into battalion clerk because he had beautiful hand-writing that people could actually read without calling in the guy who wrote it. Comfy job. Found himself a qt nurse and married her in 1944. Survived war unscratched staying away from all that dangerous shit on front line. Almost got to Berlin but in the final months his unit was sent to Czechoslovakia. End.
the reason u won was because of lancaster b17 b24
My grandpa joined the 1st marine Division after Pearl Harbor and saw combat at Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, and Peleliu. He was an MG gunner so no doubt spent a lot of time mowing down Banzai attacks.
He didn't like to talk about it much, but he did tell me a story about seizing a cache of Saki. His unit was tasked with disposing of it. Evidently finding yourself literally buried in Jap corpses might cause one to drink to excess. They all got shitfaced and passed out in the jungle. A truck had to be sent to load up there lifeless bodies like sacks of rice. One guy got lost and when the sun came up he had fallen in an open field ahead of Japanese positions. He somehow managed to sprint back to the line unharmed.
Fuck I didn't realize you were being sarcastic, sorry
No, "Mit Deutschem Gruß" "With German Greetings" is explicitly a greeting form to end letters. If you use it you get charged.
Shameful
My great grandad fought against Germans in the Somme. A bomb exploded near him and he got buried under mud...his friend witnessed this and dug him out saving his life. He also has a medal that we still have.
My dad doesn't like the monarchy because of WW1, he thinks it was just a spat between inbred monarchs using normal men as their pawns.
My grandfather's mother and sister was raped and murdered. They missed the last train before the red army arrived. He was just a boy and had to ride it alone.
He used to tell my mother how great it was under Hitler. I wish I could have met him, his dead now. He doesn't even have a tomb stone which pisses me off to no end. I can't even find his grave.
My grandad died from another guy falling on him at a concentraction camp
Yep the flipping sides part is pretty italian tier, he probably did it for the easy gibs
No, you don't. Letters from person to person are private and not public. It is only punishable if spoken to a public audience which means an uncountable mass of people.
BS, you do not get charged for writing "Mit deutschem Gruss". The laws say you need to promote the goals of Nazism ot glorify the third reich or deny the Holocaust.
Look it up.
my gramps never talked about the war, but i know he survived the holocaust.
i saw the tattoo under his arm, even though he always tried to hide it
i didnt even know he was jewish
Grandpa on mother's side dropped bombs on german civilians during the war. Said he never struck a military target, just cities and 'factories' surrounded by cities.
Grandpa on father's side machine gunned nips on the south-pacific, until a landmine got him in the leg and head.
Yea, it's "awesome" to the extend that my mum and her sisters don't have a copy of the wedding picture of their parents because they married in 1942, and grandpa being a Waffen-SS officer was sporting full regalia. The picture was destroyed along with pretty much all memorabilia. There's only bits and pieces of information left, like a photo from the SS recuperation hospital in Garmisch or a colour pencil portrait of grandfather drawn by a fellow inmate during internment after the war.
I heard the story that your grandpa was raped too. We had a special rape forces with 10 inch dildos
Both my grandads were slightly too young to fight in WW2, but one of them was old enough to join the merchant navy aged 16 immediately afterwards, and told me a good story.
His ship delivered coal to India. The sacks of coal were unloaded by local Indian women, who were absolutely dirt poor.
His exact words were: "the Indian women were so poor that they would do anything for a lump of coal - ANYTHING!"
He told this story at a family meal in a restaurant. Made me kek.
>mfw I knew that my teenage grandad used to get sucked off by poo-in-loo women for the price of a piece of coal he had picked up off the ground.
My father's father was the last son of 4 so he got a nice quiet job in a bunker on the Atlantic wall. Not in Normandie, but in Denmark, since that wall was long. His war stories are mostly about the bad quality of the local beer and sunburns he got in his free time on the beach since sun lotion wasn't available. Since we live far in the north of Germany, this was only 50 miles from home. Northern Germany and Denmark capitulated on May the 3rd, all troops left Denmark by the 8th, the British didn't reach our hometown before the 14th. My grandfather was at that time already on our farm at work and had his uniform hidden. That way he was one of the only able-bodied young men in the village and would inherit two farms. Thanks to this e could score immediately after the war with my grandmother, who would have been totally out of his league before.
Her war stories included several British fighter escorts strafing her when they spent the ammo they had left after flying back to Britain over the coast here. They also randomly dropped bombs on towns here. But nothing scary.
My mother's father was a war criminal who was only released in 1952. From what I could find out, he deserved this time. All I could find about him points at membership with the Einsatzgruppen as a police officer in a dog unit. He always had German Shepards after the war named Blondie.
My mother's mother used slave labor on the farm when her first husband died in the war. After the war, lots of refugees from Prussia and Pomerania were quarteered on the farm. The best way to get rid of them was to marry someone and have kids, so she remarried at age 37 and got two more kids. She hated all refugees and was furious when my parents wanted to invite some of them to their marriage in the mid-1970s.
A thread where each country isn't at another countries throat. Feels comfy man.
WW1 trenches really sound like the worst combat ever
Is it true that it's illegal to be skeptical towards muh six gorrillion? I mean are you allowed to research and question it?
would be a shame if somebody vandalized the graves of russian subhumans and kikes in revenge
lel
My grandpa enlisted in the army. He was infantry and operated heavy machine guns. He was trained to fight in the Pacific, but with the Battle of the Bulge coming up, he was suddenly sent to Europe instead. He saved a coconut candy bar for when he reached Japan, but instead ate it somewhere in Europe with snow up to his hips.
He said that he hated France, the people were snobby and unappreciative. One day he went out to get some wine for his unit because they were tired of drinking water. He asked the man in the shop how much it was for a case of wine and the man said $30 dollars because he was American. So my grandfather said fuck that and walked out with the case.
During one of the battles, he and his unit were pinned down by the Nazis and they shot a mortar at them. The mortar landed right by him, but by the grace of God it didn't go off.
After the war, they were searching for high ranking Nazis and bringing them to Nuremburg. His unit found one and instead of bringing him back to Nuremburg (which was a 5 hour drive) they just shot him.
Also when the divide between the allies and the Soviets was being created, my grandpa and some friends got drunk and took a jeep for a joyride into the Soviet side shooting their guns in the air.
That honestly made me sad. You should be proud though, and have many aryan kids!
Not that there's anything wrong with burning cities full of innocent people but you guys bombed a lot of them right under our noses in '45, destroying all loot and aryan lolis. Like Dresden for example. Not cool.
I had the other one in mind
>hiding jews
>literally ensuring Europe is like it is today
You can research it, you can deny it in private but in public it is illegal to question the "crimes of violenz nazi rule"
No vodkanigger, He is 100% right.
Best? You lost 3 soldiers to every German killed, what a victory
National Socialism worked for 12 years, took a war on them to bring them down over lies
USSR: Collapsed after 70 years of existence, never succeeded and has over 60 million deaths due to its regime and famines aand your people were literal slaves to Jews who controlled USSR back then
Moлoдeц, тoвapищ!
You are da real victor Viktor
mind if I ask why he was killed?
Had one great grandfather who fought in US Navy. He was drafted in 1944. I can't remember how old he was, but he was put on the USS Conner destroyer and was the oldest guy on the ship but only a Seaman 2nd class (one of lowest ranks). His combat station was a 40mm AA Bofors gun. He died when I was real young, but my grandfather said the only thing he ever said about the war, and he only talked about it once was during the battle of Leyte Gulf they were being attacked and a plane was coming in for a strafing run, they tried shooting it but they had already been getting reports of planes crashing into other ships (first battle where suicide Kamikaze attacks were used) so when they plane got real close the lead gunner told them to get behind the armor shield. One guy, who turned out to be the youngest guy on the ship, did not make it in time and was "torn to shreds" by the strafing (the plane was not kamikaze i guess). He had to clean up the mess.
I ended up fighting in Iraq and had a similar experiance. One night while living in my parents and had a "breakdown," drinking, crying at 3am on the back porch screaming about why did I survive and my friends didn't. My dad came outside and talked me down and one of the things he talked about was how he saw me doing the same things my great grandpa did. That he would be fine at family gatherings for awhile and then would have to just step away, or go off into another room for awhile. Or he was the nicest person usually but could fly off the handle. Excessive drinking. Quiet, etc etc He mentioned more stuff, but it was just interesting to think the war affected him what sounds like the same as it affected me.
I often wonder what he would think knowing that I served and fought too, but am a literal Nazi.
Great grandfather was the only person in the region with a car when the Germans came, and he didn't want to let it go, as being one of the first people with a car was a huge thing for him, so he hid it in a dung hill for 5 years. He stole his bike back from the Germans and did some resistance work, like recieving airdrops and I believe that he had a radio connection with the exiled government.
He and his wife weren't really fond of the Germans.
>You lost 3 soldiers
Soldiers losts were 1-1.3
All other 16mlns were civilians.
Will expand on the bombing thing a bit. He was a bombardier, but even with a norden bomb sight it was still extremely sketchy navigating to the correct target and aiming.
They would often just drop their payload when the lead aircraft 'confirmed' the target, but sometimes they weren't sure so they kept the bomb load till they saw something that 'looked good' and then let em go.
Lots of the bombing missions over europe were total clusterfucks. The coordination was impressive, but their effectiveness against actual hardened and hidden military targets was abysmal.
There was no such thing as a precision strike back then, unless you want to count strafing of small targets.
when germans came to their village in 1941 they were giving children sweets and everybody welcomed them as liberators
and when soviets came back in 1944 they behaved like niggers and killed my grandparents' dog because it was too loud