So many Stories are lost because nobody talks about it. And the younger generations slowly knows less and less. Thanks for sharing

Thank you for the stories of your grandparents.

Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for sharing the story.

In my family it was taboo also.
My grand father (on the french side i am half morrocan) was alsacian.
In 1939 during France colllapse, he was captured and asked to serve in the wehrmarcht.
(Alsacian are seen as cousin for german people and he was born german too before being french in 1918)
He refused and was sent to "work" in a german farm but i dont know why he was sent to the "camp" after a while
and this was terrible there.
That is only what i know he refused to talk more about that.
He never hated the german people and died peacefully in his chair during his afternoon nap.

My grandparents never talked about their trip to America between the wars. There was some assistance from Northern European undergrounds, and documents were forged for my grandfather (my grandmother may have just talked her way through it all). They were afraid they would be discovered and sent back, so it was an ongoing secret at first. Later, I suspect, it was just such ancient history that it made no real sense compared to their life in Brooklyn.

Thanks for the stories, and the giveaways.

great stories, to be head and told ofc. It must be really hard for your grandfather.

thanks for sharing :)

Thanks for sharing your story.

That is real horror and blood. When the Second World War finished I was 23 and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I’d seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. So seeing horror depicted on film doesn't affect me much.”

Christopher Lee

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

G.K. Chesterton

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary–it’s this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death and they speak of starvation.

Abigail Disney

My mother's family didn't speak much about Europe: My mother was born in 1935, and her new-world parents were the sort who didn't want to worry their children about the war.

Elizabeth McCracken

Thank you for sharing the story. :)

Thanks for sharing vaudi!

Thank you for the stories! :)

The first story about the tank reminded me of the American film Fury, about a tank crew surviving in nazi-occupied Europe in April '45. This interview with a real British tanker talking about his own experiences in relation to the film is worth a read imho:link

Huh. Great stories. Thanks for sharing. I may have skipped few other carts of this history train but not yours. Yes.

Thank you very much :)

Thank you very much Vaudi !