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Dieter Honboffer's avatar

Livci appreciated the post its near to me. My foster mom was born 1946 in east Berlin. Her mom was a disaster in her telling, alcohol abuse and serial abusive male presence. I only met her once, she was a shell.

Per the family lore her biological father was a Slav but her mom eventually moved to west Berlin and took up with a series of Americans. I have no idea if that is accurate she looks more German than anything.

Regardless, the war obliterated a whole generation of Germans and Russians in spirit. In many ways the eastern Germans are still kinda German the west Germans are mostly discount Americans. Its all sad.

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Igor Vuksanović's avatar

By the way, there is also a book The Virtous Wehrmacht by D.Harrisville, based on letters of German soldiers with many descriptions of atrocities in the East. I don't know how to convince Western rightwingers, but if you shoot around 3000 civilians (among them 287 highschoolers) in retribution for 10 dead and 26 wounded Germans (Kragujevac massacre 1941), then sure as hell you believe your enemy is subhuman.

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