This guy isn’t obviously Udo’s cousin, IS he? NOOOO.
Americans soldiers said they could always find the Germans in the hedgerows and woods because the Germans were always arguing. LOUDLY.
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Well, what would YOU do with these two? You can only turn your back and pretend you didn’t know. Because they’re going to do it anyway.
When Hogan’s Heroes Schulz said, “I see nothing,” this is generally what Germans meant. If you were sneaking a friend to safety or giving clothing to a German woman’s Jewish daughter (true story), Germans would look away and pretend you weren’t there. Because if they knew, everybody was dead. They got really good at looking up and going, “Look! Air!”
I think the closest thing we get to Everyday Life in the Third Reich other than my books is “‘allo, allo.” Because everyday life is funny every moment. No matter how horrible it gets. And everybody has their point of view. No matter how horrible it is.
I probably should warn anybody who gets migraines about this page.
Note the noble ideal vs. the sordid reality.
Another story I’m not making up….
Much more like our own – ahem – “correctional facilities.” That’s how the camps started out. As places to put Germans who needed to be “recovered.” Dachau was built to scare Germans into good behavior and quietness. They have to go for the main population before they really go for the minorities.
Migraines while running a labor camp. With full power over people’s lives, it’s amazing such a person wouldn’t just shoot everybody. Including the troops.
The actual history Americans should have been studying was German history. The full-blown death camps just didn’t happen overnight. They developed, like all diseases.
Anybody here working at a prison?
Now it’s all going to come out, everything he’s been doing since he’s been in Africa. And everybody he’s been drafting into his “efforts.”
Daughter of the SS, daughter of the camps; I didn’t believe it when I heard it, either, but then, they’re both circling around the same bowl of porridge.
This is what happens when you put wishes out into the universe; sometimes, when you’ve forgotten about them, they’re fulfilled by people you should have told.
Yeah, I know: “Why didn’t the Americans recognize this guy for a Holocaust survivor!!?”
If I showed that – before anybody found a camp — it’d be an anachronism. It’s not like this stuff was being broadcast; in fact, in Germany, it was dangerous to talk about it, even if you knew.
Americans didn’t want those films getting out of Guantanamo, either….
A German is a German, especially then; this guy really thinks he’s been done an injustice being thrown in a camp with THOSE PEOPLE. They could at least have put him in with his own people. Geeze.
New story tomorrow — what’s been called the Backstory: “New and Different” – where we find out who’s responsible for the ribbon on the riding crop!
