what did your family do during ww2 in your country? one of my great grandpas was executed because his friend carried a gun, another one worked in a coal mine to avoid conscription, my great grandmas brothers fought in africa and one died there and one stayed in germany after the war,my gradmas family had to hide her from the russians when they attacked in 1945 by faking a funeral service at the house because she was giving birth to my grandmathe russians later tried to kidnap the miner grandpa to make him dig uranium in the caucasus so he hid in a potato pile for a few weeks
>>221862895They worked in factories o algo.
>>221862895dodged ovens
>>221862895Fought in the Pacific theater. And my other grandpa said Paris smelled like piss even back then.
>>221862895My greatgranddather was in the Tito's partisans, he died in 1985 or 1986
>>221862895My great-grandpa was a naval surgeon who served on an aircraft carrier. No idea what the other one did.
>>221862895Farming potatos mostly.
>>221862895Chilling at village
>>2218628953 great-grandfathers and 1 grandfather fought in WW2. One has lost his brother in the war, who was also a soldier. None of them really talked about the conflict though.
my grandma's brothers fought throughout the war on most fronts except Africa. one of the two was KIA in Silesia in 1945my one grandpa was too young to fight, my other grandpa was a soldier in France but then allowed back to work in a factoryone of my grandma's cousins was killed in Aktion T4 (forced euthanasia) for having mental issues in 1940some old female relative of my grandpa got killed in a bombing attack on a citysome older male relative on my father's side was a soldier too and died shortly after the war in Yugoslav captivitymy grandma's sister was probably raped in Berlin at the end of the war, my grandma never spelled it out but it sounded like that from what she told, she died in 1945on my in law's side one grandma fled from East Prussia in 1944/45
>>221862895Ran a farm and did some fishing.
What if all these things never actually happened and narratives have just been dramstically embellished over subsequent generations to project identity.Maybe our great grandparents were just living paycheck to paycheck complaining about not finding a partner or affording a house in a social environment where people dont take each other seriously and have a veil of anonymity.
>>221862895Did nothing the whole time and then ate shit after the war for being large landowners (although one of my great grandpas and his two brothers were executed for dodging Syrmian front conscription late in the war)>died in 1985 or 1986Should have lived to see eseferjot burn, that would have been mad funny ngl
>>221863803>None of them really talked about the conflict thoughI noticed that lot of people said this too about their grandfathers or greatgrandfathers who took part in fighting, I guess they didn't want to glorify horrors they experienced
>>221863851Maybe for you, literally nothing of note happened in your country since the 1800sImagine going in a thread full of Poles, Serbs and Germans and saying their WW2 stories are embellished lmao
>>221863827Bros in 15-20 years time if the economic situation does not improve will I be killed for being a BPD retard who takes SSRIs?I told the psychiatrist I think I am Jewish too because of youtube slop confusing me. It is so over
>>221862895probably chilling in their village. ww2 wasn't really a big deal here
>>221862895My greatgrapas imigrate during the IWW from Spain and Italy, so they was planting cofee
>>221863851>Maybe our great grandparents were just living paycheck to paycheckWell, yeah the Great Depression had just ended.>complaining about not finding a partnerLol no. This is a uniquely 21st century issue.
>>221862895>hung out in cyberia>serviced planes and other machinery for soviets>conducted trains for germans and farmed potatoes in an occupied village
>>221863897The eastern front of WW2 was especially brutal from what I've read. It was the most combat heavy theatre, and thinking about what my grandfathers went through, especially at Stalingrad, makes me appreciate my peaceful life more.
>>221862895Mother's side great-grandpa had his own mechanic shop while from my father's side great-grandpa was a wandering salesman on the patagonia, ranged from selling heating to stuff that didn't often reach the inner small towns of the country. He was very succesful. There's an anecdote that he once hunted an andear condor, one of the biggest birds on the planet.
What will your grandkids say you did during WW3?
>>221862895Nothing. We aren't crazed bloodthirsty wh*te demons so we chilled home instead of slaughtering each other
>>221864368Based
1. machjne gunner2. too young to serve, had to hide from russian bombers. got to feed russian prisoners in a POW camp
>>221862895One great granddad (my dad's dad's dad) was working as miller so he avoided conscriptionOne great granddad (my mom's dad's dad) was horseman in army and only thing i know is that he and his pals were able to capture group of Russians and because of that they were rewarded one month extra for vacation from war.Dont know about others
>>221862895During winter war, one grandfather was working at a railway that moved stuff to the front. After that, he was working on a finnish merchant ship that arrived to USA and got confiscated by the americans when they joined the war. He spent the rest of the war chilling there.
>>221862895both my grampas were draft dodgers and hid in the woods of sardinia
>>221862895My other granpa was a bit too young to take part himself, his future wife(my granma) had to escape from the soviet invasion. My othet granpa supposedly shot a lots of russian and survived a brutal beaching near Karelian isthmus, but he never talked about those himself, it's just stuff from the officer diaries and such.
My great grandpa was a soldier (so obviously did nothing since we were neutral) but apperantly he got picked to escort the Germans from Norway after the war. Apperantly all the Swedish soldiers that got picked to escort the Germans by train through our borders were picked based on how tall and intimidating they looked. So you had a group of +190cm tall turbo Swedes who's only job was to travel to wherever the Germans were escorted and look down on them.
>>221864665based
>>221862895>great grandpa 1 was a drunktard and fought at Sevastopol. he was later POWed but managed to get home>great grandpa 2 was a smartie so he worked in the supply line. his unit was destroyed and dismantled and he came home as skeleton full of lice. when great grandma saw him she didn't let him enter inside and started boiling water to clean him despite being the middle of the night >great grandmas were just chilling at home while taking care of my grandparents >germs were nice to them >finally soviets came and looted everything they could find so my grandparents had to cover their houses with black tissue and to make them look unkept >idk about my father's part.
>>221863827>one of the two was KIA in Silesia in 1945damn thats where the family i described lived >one of my grandma's cousins was killed in Aktion T4 (forced euthanasia) for having mental issues in 1940thats really horrible, i read about this programme, it was the baseline for holocaust >>221863851thats probably how it was in nz, life in germany and its neighbours was really dynamic during those years
>>221862895No idea.
>>221862895>what did your family do during ww2> in your country?not muchthey both went to africa, one was made prisoners after a few months, the other made it to the battle lf el alamein. Both were first made prisonewrd by the british and sent to tome kenyan or south africna camp then passed to the americans and went to california. Both came back hating the english and being big ameriboos. ( One of them said the english only made prisoners eat potato peels, then when they went to the usa they were basically free all they ad to do is go back to sleep at night in the camp, they did meme jobs and got paid better than in italy. He did even found an american gf, and was going to get married, but there was a law that war prisoners had to go back to italy and then come back to ameria if they wanted to stay, he never went back because my grandma wa sbetter looking but sometimes he wished he had because the americna woman was rich. When he came back he took a british shipo and english sailors stoole all of his money from americna work and stuff.)
>>221865044>He did even found an american gf, and was going to get married, but there was a law that war prisoners had to go back to italy and then come back to ameria if they wanted to stay, he never went back because my grandma wa sbetter looking but sometimes he wished he had because the americna woman was rich.most faithful italian male
>>221865069I still have the gifts and the letters the woman sent my grandpa from america when he went back to italy
>>221865088lol grandpa had rizz
>>221862895>he russians later tried to kidnap the miner grandpa to make him dig uranium in the caucasus so he hid in a potato pile for a few weekskek
>>221865134in total they deported 40k silesians and 80% of them diedchance to come home alive from eastern front in the wehrmacht was 50% btw
>>221862895fuck around in villagesfuck around in cities
>>221862895My grandfather only joined at the end of the war because he was too young, he was in the korean war though and got a medal for killing some guy in a POW camp and escaping
>>221862895>so he hid in a potato pile for a few weeksAnd ate potatoes?
>>221865250At the time when they allegedly tried to kidnap your grandfather, there was no uranium mining in the Caucasus.soviets got german pow en masses, they were used to rebuild ussr after the war.
>>221862895>Sold fish to the Allies>Worked for the Allies>Stole from the Allies>One went to university in the USSR for some reason
>>221865850he wasnt a pow, he was a civilian
>>221862895Chilled in Austria/worked in factories
>>221866061exactly, why the ussr would use your grandfather if they got millions pow at their disposal?
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>>221862895Granny had a small farm. Literally nothing happened. The nazis didn't give a shit, bought vegetables from her and she bought dairy from them since it was a product in short supply. When the commies rushed in they stole her food but that was basically it. No other sides of the family talked about their stories. I know I had one ancestor who was a vice-president in one of the city's factories, so probably jewish.
>>221864665Chad freethinkers
>>221862895I don't know, they died early, I don't even know my grandparents names
>>221862895Great gramps was an electrician we still own his work helmet
>>221862895Farmed tobacco, farmed cassava, farmed beans
>>221862895My grandfather's uncles were all in the Navy. One of them was killed when his ship was sank by a U boat the other two were killed when the IJN firebombed Calcutta harbour
>>221862895They didn't want to talk about that.
>>221862895dad's side German Jews, mom's side from Belarus. German side basically got out in time, late 30s. great-grandfather saw what was coming earlier than most and dragged the whole family to Palestine before the war even started. they lost everything obviously, business, house, the whole thing, but they got out alive which is the main thing. his brother didn't listen, stayed and we don't really know what happened to him, died somewhere in the camps probably. one cousin ended up in the British army and was somewhere in north africa with the Jewish Brigade or close to it, i don't remember exactly.Belarus side most of the family was killed, like a lot of jews from there. my grandma survived because her mother shoved her with some non-jewish neighbors when the germans came, and she basically grew up hidden for like 2 years, she was a small kid. her father was with the partisans in the forests, survived the whole war, found her after. when the russians "liberated" them it wasn't exactly a party either, my great-grandfather got pushed into hard labor stuff in the east, mining i think, and he hid in a barn or under potatoes or something for weeks until things calmed down. they made aliyah in the 50s, illegally first, then legally
>>221863882kek I also have a great grandfather who went into hiding to avoid going to the front in Srem. He didn't hate commies or anything he was just scared of dying in war. Nothing happened to him though, but that's probably because he was from some backwater village. Another one of my great grandfathers did fight there and got a medal and died in 2007>>221863897I also have one more great grandfather who was old enough to fight in both WW1 and WW2 (or young enough, depending on how you look at it). My mom says he had cool stories from WW1 and even a cool scar on the top of his head from a bullet that flew over him just barely. He described a lot of environments and people he met back then in excruciating detail but absolutely no atrocities or dark moments of any kind. I think veterans do this because they want their kids to enjoy life and not hate anyone and avoid becoming emo edgelord chuds>>221864368And then you went to war with Pissrael and lost
>>221862895No idea. Probably just chilled since WW2 was not our problem.
my great grandfather went to Britain to repair planes, cheated on his wife with a Britslag and fathered a bastard no one in my family has ever met
One was a woodsman and exempt from draft, the other volunteered for the Eastern front at 16 years old after his brother died from a grenade, had second thoughts, defected, nearly died in some Kyrgyz mine, found his home now given to the Poles, and had to build a new life from nothing in another
Being farmers at the other side of the world
>>221867614Mother told me that great-grandfather told her that she shouldn't be afraid of no animals, only humans since they are biggest animals. Guess that came from his experience from war and people in general. He told her that when she was afraid of forest sounds when she would walk with him in village.
>>221866246to my knowledge there is no uranium mines in Donbass. Most known uranium mine in Ukraine is Yellow Waters which is outside of Donbass. In my understanding it seems rumor. but you are very welcome to disprove me by sharing a source. meanwhile, few russian sources also confirm deportation of Silesians to the Donbass region for mining.
>>221864665High test people
>>221866246Fake news
>>221868843russian source:https://web.archive.org/web/20110609211413/http://demoscope.ru/weekly/knigi/polian/polian_5-7.pdf
>>221862895Maternal grandfather and his brothers were in the US navy and airforce attempting not to die in the pacific. None of them did somehow. Grandfather went to korea too. Paternal grandfather was running a farm in rural Saskatchewan getting a start of churning out 13 (thirteen) children with grandma. Apparently she was near perpetually pregnant for the better part of seventeen years.
>>221862895He was an officer in the Air Force. I don't know exactly what he did, but it involved radar. Very low personal risk of injury or death, but the safety of a lot of other people depended on him doing his job correctly.
Their parents were greek speakers and they were busy… not getting starved to death by nazis like the real greeks were. Just farmin’ tea and hazelnuts.Imagine getting sent to greece because of heckin post-imperial nationalism melties and unite with heckin based savior europe or whatever only to get starved by nazis in another nationalist meltie because they think you’re a subhuman anyway. Grampa did a high iq play by larping as an imam to stay in the village. Not our problem. (And eurotards think we are the ones who got genocided even doe we’re the ones who kept all our shit lel)
>>221862895lol, my grandpa was a cook in the Army. They called him Cookie! You wouldn't think a cook would see much action, but for some reason they gave him a BAR. One day, defending himself, he shot down a German fighter plane. Mostly however, he was trying to run into people's houses and steal their stuff. He stole a cuckoo clock, but mostly he would just raid wine cellars.
>>221862895>Grandfather, dad side, British16 year old Cadet in the British Army. Assigned to guard Italian prisoners because they were literally considered low risk and chill so they just let literal teenagers guard them lmao. My grandad spoke Spanish because he grew up in Argentina (British immigrants there, of all things) so he could banter with the Italians too. Allegedly the hardest part of the job was keeping Scottish women away from the Italianchads. >Grandfather, mum side, German Successfully draft dodged until 1945 when they finally grabbed his ass for the Volksturm in the literal last 2 weeks of the war lmao. His commander basically said "this is fucking stupid, we're fucked, just home everybody" and they all deserted. Also claims a Luftwaffe officer gave him kerosene for his motorcycle so he could dash out of Hungary before the Soviets arrived and allegedly it worked, no idea if this is BS or not. >Great grandfather, mum side, GermanLiterally got to see WWII's first minutes in real time, he was arrested at the Danzig-Polish border by the Polish army 5 days before the invasion began and accused of being a German spy. They were going to execute him but then the German army invaded and saved him at the 11th Hour. Got drafted as well, served as an Officer. He saw the writing on the wall and decided to save his men by getting them all to desert together and haul ass across Europe to escape the Soviets and surrender to the Americans (Brits would've sent him back to the Soviets).
>>221862895Both of my grandpas fought in the continuation war. Got some medals, lived to tell about it. Happy endings all around.
One of my uncles bombed Japan.
They came to America fleeing the war
>>221862895Based potato hider ancestor
>>221863934I hope so given your posts ITT
>>221862895I'm not entirely sure. My grandpa from my dad's side was a teacher in his village I think. When my dad was in uni he received an allowance for the children of war veterans, so I guess my grandpa did something to warrant that. My grandpa from my mom's side was still a kid during WW2 so he probably did nothing aside from kid stuff.
One worked as a metal caster in Norway and got the fuck out after the german army ordered (demanded) a delivery of combustion ovens that there was no way his workshop would be able to complete on schedule. He spent the rest of the way war working as a day laborer here in Sweden.One was in the volunteer corps during the winter war. He started a carpentry firm that built crates for food shipments afterwards and created a bit of generational wealth for my dad’s side of the family
>>221863897because cult of victory is pure insanity like literal idolatry on mass graves if i went through hell the last thing i would want is to be reminded about it every year so some faggy corrupt bureaucrat could pretend to be a patriot on camera once a year
Grandfather on my dad's side lost his leg to a mine during the battle of the bulge, he was carrying a guy who had lost both his. Grandfather on my mom's side got drafted, went through boot camp, and when they learned he knew how to type they had him editing manuals. He shipped to France the day Germany surrendered and the war ended on a liberty ship. Said it was awful lol. Also the french were rude (he grew up speaking French, they had a problem with his cajun accent)
>>221870175The hidden potato polack is basically invincible
Mom’s Dad was in the army and was part of retaking the Philippines. We have one picture of him in a camp in Manila. Apparently he took scouting missions to get home earlier. Dad’s dad was too young, and his father didn’t seem to go.
