Hey guys, I’m with my German grandpa this afternoon. He’s 92 and joined the Wehrmacht in 1943...

Hey guys, I’m with my German grandpa this afternoon. He’s 92 and joined the Wehrmacht in 1943. He has so so so many stories, and he actually loves talking about it.

Ask him some questions, I’ll try give responses to everything. (He doesn’t like too many questions about the Holocaust specifically though)

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>He doesn’t like too many questions about the Holocaust specifically though

Why? None of us believe it happened.

Does he think there's a heavy post_victory propaganda?

How did he escape Eisenhowers death camp?

what did he do in the wehrmacht?

would he have fought wiith Patton against the reds?

Where did he fight ? Did he killed someone ? What was the feeling when going to the front for the first time ?

did he believe in the ideology of the party or did he join from a draft or something of that sort

We're Eisenhowers death camps real?

No questions, just thanks.

I am just curious as to what fronts he served in and if possible a Division

Is everything we know about Juden a lie? What is his personal opinion about the common kike?

What did he think of Hitler as a person and as a commander/strategist during that time?

Tell him that I'm sorry my great grandad killed some of his bros. Americans got jewed into killinging our fellow white men, and it makes me sad. 1488.

The best story I ever got from my grandfather was when I asked him what the most bitter sweet memory of his service was. Would you ask him this question?

First time he killed someone and what went through his head.

How does he compare present-day Germany with Germany 1933-39 before the war?

these are some great stories, OP...oh wait
what the fuck is your problem?

ask him about his fellow soldiers and commanders, what were they like? did they truly hate jews?

Did he fight for Hitler or for himself in the war?
If you look at almost all letters that were captured from German soldiers when Stalingrad was encircled most of them expressed a willingess to fight and die for National Socialism.

did he kill any slavs?

A 7,92mm, probably

Will OP be a cool dude and deliver?

Or

Will OP be a faggot.

>place your bets.

was the jew hate meme a real thing or did anyone even know or care? how common was it?

...

One (you) on 'OP is a faggot'. What are the odds?

Did he feel he was on the "bad side"

What are his views on Trump

I place 2 (You)'s on that OP will deliver if the thread doesn't archive

Well yeah, obviously. They didnt have any fucking choice now did they? It was either fight to the death or surrender and die in the gulags. A force that cannot surrender or retreat will fight 10 times harder than one that has the option to withdraw. Its not unheard of to purposely not surround an enemy for this very reason.

kill yourself larper

What did he do in the Wehrmacht? Was he infantry? Armor? Artillery? Support?

Who did he fight?

Did/does he believe in the German cause?

What are his thoughts on pic related/Jews?

I talked to both my grandfathers quite bit.
ama I guess

Yeah but the letters said that they wanted to fight and die FOR Hitler and Germany because they believed in the cause.

Ask him if Krup selling guns that couldn't penetrate Panzer armor to non-Germans while Germans got the best stuff was a running joke.

Did he loose his pants in the war? I might have them.

This.

See

>(He doesn’t like too many questions about the Holocaust specifically though)
how would he know anything about something that never happened?

he get that medal for killin' Jews?

Uhhh because those don't exist?

Kek'd underrated response

What did he think of his enemy? What equipment did he use? What was it like for him nearing the end of the war what did he do?

>He has so so so many stories, and he actually loves talking about it.

Should record it.

Tell him that a bunch of people on the internet think that the events of WW2 have been heavily propagandized and exaggerated by the Allies and see what he says.

reddit is over there

What did the Germans think of Poles (or Slavs, in general) at the time? What did the state propaganda say?

FUCKING VIDEO RECORD IT PLEASE. 99% of us don't speak German but someone will sub If it's important enough too.

This

My opa was in occupied netherlands. One time he told me about how him and his brother saw a German soldier walking up the street by hi.self and they beat him unconscious in an alley. Was that man your grandpa?

I had an AMA like this once.

Did your Granpa ever see somebody killed when passing ammunition shells to load a tank or artillery piece and the shell exploded for no apparent reason?

Wondering if it's the same guy or not.

What is the point of this thread? Seriously what was the point in making this thread if you weren't going g to give a single response?

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OP is a faggot

What would he like to see in the world today? What is his advice for the current generation?

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great thread, OP

My great grandfather served in the SS from 1932 to 1945 when he was killed on the eastern front. He fought with the 1st SS Division "Adolf Hitler" as a tanker until he was heavily wounded on the eastern front and after recovering transferred to the "Totenkopf" division, 3rd SS. He held the rank of Hauptscharführer at the time of his death. He probably would have made it to a higher rank, but he got in trouble a lot from drinking. Highest medal he received was the Iron Cross 1st class. He died in the fighting around Budapest. Obviously I never knew him, but my great grandmother survived the war, and I spent a lot of time talking to her about the war, and till the day she died, she was a firm National Socialist.

>pic related
only photo i have of my grandfather, it was sent after the war to my grandmother by a friend because when she fled Germany to come the US, she threw away anything that associated her with the NSDAP and SS. Supposedly someone else in the family has a photo of him not in uniform, but not sure. A lot of the family doesn't like to talk about it, and they know my stance on it, so a lot of them try to hinder my efforts to preserve his memory.
AMA

Why did the Wehrmacht lose against Russia? Was the german military technological more advanced than the Allies?

Did your grandfather have a stroke? Talk to us, OP.

>What did he do in the Wehrmacht?
Fathers father was anti-tank artillery mothers father air force.
>Who did he fight?
FF the Belgians, French and Russians or whoever the Red Army men actually were.
MF against Spanish republicans, British and for one unsuccessful mission Americans.
>Did/does he believe in the German cause?
FF was a nationalist, but quote: 'Jews shouldn't have been but in camps. If you get tricked it's your own fault for trusting a Jew.'
MF was more capitalist and almost pacifist in his youth, fuck commies though.
>What are his thoughts on pic related?
>What are their thoughts on weird Anne Frank fanfiction.
Uhm...
>Jews?
FF see above, MF never talked about those things.

Not op but my neighbor is 91 and she worked at the Huntsville space station for IBM and GE during the moon landing, should I do an AMA?

This dumbfuck is treating this like a beddit AMA

>tfw dutch oupa who's going senile throws up his hand and says heil hitler in inappropriate situations

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Film him, make him speak to the world about what does he think of the world today.

I bet faggot.

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>Will OP be a faggot.?
he was born this way stop making fun of him

tell him im glad ivan raped your gramma

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never trust the brussels kikes

Did he rape any woman?

Ask him if he thinks the holocaust happened the way they say it did or if only 500k jews died

Did the commies rape his family or people he knew?

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There is a reason why Belgium isn't a real country.

Did he ever had a confrontation with a tank?

Your grandpa sounds like a prety cool dude, OP.
what does he think of jap cartoons depicting the wehrmacht?

God bless your Grandfather and my grandfather. I am sorry they ever had to fight. History shows we should have joined together.

Think OPs nazi grandaddy must have just kicked the bucket...

no man deserves to be forgotten by his family, only hecause he was on the losing side

Probably because he knows it's all bullshit and gets immensely infuriated by the fact that so many people believe it. Think of how you'd feel about questions of that nature if you knew it was a massive lie pinned against you and the entire nation you fought for. He probably had friends that were executed after the war based on fabricated war-crimes.

opa*

Oupa is Afrikaans

What's his favorite cake?

His ancestor talks slow, and at length, and takes naps in the middle ;)

Shame on me.

Neither of them knew such a thing exists, but one was fascinated by Call of Duty and the Battlefield 2 Forgotten Hope 2 mod.

youtu.be/bE-DEt85uVU
>that one faggot who smacks her arm down and terrifies her

^^^^^
Use phone. Everyone's got a phone.

where did it all go so wrong?

Based Omi.

DESCRIBE THE WIEMAR REPUBLIC

Until her dying fucking breath.

Good for her.

I will pray for her. I wish I could whisper in her ear "We havent been defeated."

Do you think any letters proclaiming the opposite would have survived censorship?

What about vidya that let you play from the german side without mods, like Day of Infamy and Red Orchestra?

I have some great pictures for your old man! Show grandpa this, he will love it!

Did he serve near Dresden? Maybe he had some secret romance with qt from there!

>interested layman military historian

- his unit
- which campaigns did he serve in
- his tasks
- how were relations w/ locals
- any partisan contact

Milk him for every information. My grampa died when I was an infant and I just recently found out that he served in the LSSAH.

What campaigns did he partake in?
How did he experience the end of the war?
Is he an ethno-nationalist or a civic nationalist?
Did he at any point in time consider the war to be lost before it was over? If yes what were/are his thoughts on it being continued regardless?

Deeper in Russia "cooler" the war was!

My grandfather was Gruppenfuhrer in Wehrmacht. He never saw any atrocities claimed by the Allies. He claimed that Holocaust was a lie made by Soviets especially. There were of course, camps and whatnot but they were just for deportation, not for extermination. He died couple of years ago. He was very old.

>Wiemar

Weimar, you fucking Burger.
Also, if the man joined service in 1943 he was born in mid 1920s and barely consciously witnessed the Weimar times. It would be more interesting to hear his accounts of growing up in Nationalsocialism because his generation was the Hitler Jugend.

don't you have toilets to clean, you polish mongrel?

Wehrmacht gave them oportunity to travel around the Europe. Here - water fun and games somewhere in Italy!

ooh sorry, no foto

He's one of the Commie poles, the 1/3 that should look at a mirror.

Don't forget about the right-wind poles that occupy 2/3 [;