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Arminius1871 — My great-grandfather at home
Published: 2011-02-13 10:46:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 2482; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 22
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Here you see my great-grandfather, when he had Heimatsurlaub (holidays at home) from the front.I think that was the last time, he saw his family and his bavarian village, before he died in the east...
My grandma, who was about 3 or 4 years old at that time still remembers, that she cleaned his boots, and that she thought the boots were so giant for her XD
I may not show my grandma those pictures or talk about it, because then she starts to cry, because she lost her father so early in that stupid war.
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The second, but still sad, thx for the respect!
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I'm sorry to learn he didn't survive the war, and died at the eastern front like many others.
He did his duty and died doing it, and that's something to be proud of.
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there is no greater pride than serving one's nation!
and it makes me happy that no one has ridiculed the photo, because of his service.
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Yes it´s really cool, but it would be extremely dumb to offend the veteran of someone,
I wouldn´t do that too.
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Yes nearly all Germans have an ancestor that fought in the war^^
I have several, but only the pictures and letters from him survived the last 70 years...
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That would be interesting if he is still alive till now
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Yes but even many surviving soldiers were killed by the Russians and Americans in camps...but everyone only knows the german crimes, not what the others did.
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So your grandfather was killed by Soviets/Americans?
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Yes he died near Leningrad, rather early in the east-war.
He was the watch-man at the bunker and a huge bomb or grenade hit the roof where he watched and he was immediately dead. It´s so awful, he was around 25, had two children and a wife at home and then he was dead in the east...
But of course I would never hate the normal people from Russia, I only hate the evil government and helpers they had.
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It's sad that he died in a very young age, but it's sure was a honor to your family that he worked in the Reich.
Yeah I myself hate Commies but not Russians.
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It was a honour indeed!
Well the big mistake of Hitler was, that he said Slavs are not Aryans, what is wrong,
if he would´ve liberated them instead of treated them bad, they would´ve fought for him.
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But some of non Aryans fought for him too.
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I know, that´s why I wonder, he hated the slavs so much.
He also was on side of the semites.
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There is always traitors that pushed him back
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it is an honor that your great-grandfather served sacred Germany regardless of the leadership. I am sure he served with honor.
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Thanks for that kind words, I´m also proud, tho the Nazis were an evil government. The german soldiers fought so bravely against all other superpowers of the world.
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My Grandmother's uncle was corvette-Kaptain Herman Ehrhardt, from the Marine Brigade Ehrhardt (Freikorps), that participated in the Kapp Putsch. He allied with Hitler in the 1920's, but left the Nazis when Hitler showed histrue colors. My Grandparents left Germany before Hitler became chancellor in 1932 and moved to the US. Much of my family remained behind.
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Oh yes...many people didn´t move away, they thought it will end soon and of course it´s hard to leave your homeland, and to learn a new language.
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Only now is our family embracing our German past.
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Very very sad. It seems that there are strong bonds in your family and that is something to be proud of.
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the photos of him are sooooo beautiful and lovely . it is such a shame that people are sent to the death by others((
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That´s so true! That´s why it makes me so sad, when I see war-movies, where they show always Germans as screaming evil monsters, that´s so extremely mean, because it´s not true! The normal soldiers, were also normal men, they had families, and wanted to live in peace. Especially after the awful 1. world war, most Germans didn´t really want another big war. But the Nazis were too powerful already. Even 1939 before the war against Poland, some generals thought about refusing to fight.
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Don't worry! smart people don't believe in these stupid movies. especially Hollywood ones))
and thank you for this information, because it is difficult to find real unbiased information about those days)))
I also think that those men were very brave and had nice personality, no matter what the official today's propaganda would say.
and thank u again for nice pics. it makes me think over about upload my grand-grand father's army photos)
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I wanted to know the truth, and as I see it was mostly like that. The normal Wehrmacht-soldiers were usually normal men and they fight so good, because they were afraid of the Russians killing their families (what they did in eastgermany is known), but sometimes they were forced to kill partisans and others.
But the real evil were the SS-men and Cleaning-troups, that came to the conquered regions, after the Wehrmacht moved on. That were the evil men, that sat in thew arm office and killed jews, while the Wehrmacht-men dies in the east.
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I wish he'd come back home...
A nice foto, thank you for sharing it.
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Thank you for that kind words!
I wished that too...he was so young,
he didn´t want to fight in the war...but he had to.
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I wish I would have pictures this old..>:
But it's sad too..
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Oh yes I wished I could´ve met him...
Did your relations not save any old documents???
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Not really. I did probably have plenty of relatives that fought in WW2.. but no one has any documents about them..
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Oh that´s bad! My relations also sold or threw away some documents, but I´ve still battlefield-letters and photos at least.
So where r u from, Antarctica? XD
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Ohh lucky you. >.<
Never mind that it's just a bit of a joke.. 
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If you mean Neuschwabenland with Antarctica I know what you mean^^
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I guess it could be said in that way too.. ^^
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Thanks! Yes the picture is about 70 years old^^
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Of course, it´s history and people see private photos, how it was really. In all the documentary-programms on TV, you see only propaganda-vids from Hitler, with comments. But of course Hitler wanted to present them as cold killing-machines.
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i can sympathize with you about not talking about your great grandfather with your grandma. My granny lost her father in the war as well. He died when she was still around 3-4 years old. i believe he died somewhere in Italy. (not entirely positive) But i love all these old pics u are putting up! black and white photos are so cool ^^
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Yes war is interesting, but too sad...
Yes the old pictures are like a treasure, I´m happy noone threw them away, because my relations were not very interested in them.
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A good picture along with a good piece of history, thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for the nice words!
Yes it´s history and I love history in every way
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