Waiting for the flames...
While this will probably be a touchy subject for some people, but bare with it.

In my house there is a photo of a German soldier and his wife, when I was younger I asked who he was, my dad replied, "that's my grandfather" and not much else, I only found out recently that was all he knew as well.

We had a father/son project to work out who this man was, all we had to go on was this photo as my dad doesn't really talk to his mother (That's another story for later) using the power of the internet we worked out that he was in the Luftwaffe as a "Gefreiter" anyone who knows the German ranking system knows that this means he was an "exempted man" (meaning he didn't have to do sentry duty) looking further into his uniform, we found that he was engineer.

At this point we were somewhat stuck, and after a few phonecalls to distant relatives from Germany, the bigger picture came out.

As it turns out he was moved all the way across Norway building air bases for the Military effort. However, while this was happening his family in Berlin were under constant threat of bombing, so his housekeeper took the children away into the Black Forest and kept them there until the war was over, when he got back home, he was so grateful to this woman that he married her!

Even though he fought for the Germans in WW2, he was still a great man
(Maccy Divided by 0 on, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 0:47, 8 replies)

Why would that get flamed?

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 9:15, closed)

Occasionally
I forget that most members of b3ta are more mature than the rest of the internet.
(Maccy Divided by 0 on, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 13:58, closed)

Flaming just 'cause he was on the loosing side?
It doesnt make him a bad person, as such.
Just occassionally crap at decision making.
( Fire & Forget it's the only way to be sure, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 9:40, closed)

What did they set free?

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 9:47, closed)

The Austrians and their natural tendancies?

( Fire & Forget it's the only way to be sure, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 9:50, closed)

What the fuck? You would post that here? YOU SCUM
Your grandfather was a nazi and didn't kill any jews? and you post it here? Fuck off now, just fuck right off the internet. With you incompetent grandfather memory haunting you. You fucking fuck of a fuck.
(CactusZack Shaved his coin purse on, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 12:59, closed)

No problem with that
The German soldiers were just soldiers not Nazis. Nazis were members of a political party, not all the soldiers were Nazis, same as not all British army soldiers suddenly switched from being Labour soldiers to Tory soldiers after the election. All soldiers generally do as they are told by their superiors though.
( Peej, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 13:18, closed)

we don't need no smart people making us learn and stuff

(CactusZack Shaved his coin purse on, Wed 8 Jun 2011, 2:30, closed)