What did your family do during WW2?

Were they involved in anyway and what did they do?

My German family:

My grandad was in the hitler youth and got drafted in the last few weeks of the war at age 16. He was part of a group of young guys led by an older captain who realised the war was lost at this stage and just wanted to keep the kids alive. He is quite lucky to have survived.

>American tank column approaching
>captain tells lads to jump in an irrigation ditch and hide
>one lad jumps out with a Panzerfaust and tries to take on a tank alone
>fires Panzerfaust at a tank and fails miserably
>captain grabs runs out, grabs the kid and shoots him the head
>lays down weapon and orders the rest to come out and do the same
>kids are stripped of uniforms and weapons and told to fuck off home by the U.S. Soldiers.
>they got given some food, my grandad says some kind of weird pork stuff with sweet fruit in it.
>also first time my grandad saw a black man IRL

Inb4 poltards scream coward.

The otherside were from Königsberg and my great grandad fought on the eastern front while Prussia was evacuated. My gran has some absoitely horrendous stories about the Russians and people killing rape babies etc.

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Danish family;

>nazis invade
>life gets kinda shit
>nazis open fire upon a group of civilians including my grandmother
>Grandpas brother gets put in prison for selling pastries to the germans
>Half of the family move to sweden just a few years after the war because nazis fucked shit up

My grandfather died in auswitch

Spanish family
> great uncle was in the Division Azul (Spanish volunteers fighting for Germany)
> Siege of Leningrad
> by day, he's fighting alongside the Germans
> at night, he'd cross into Soviet lines with some of his buddies
> he'd go to where the Soviets were and would drink with them, since the Russians had the better booze
> they'd bring German cigarettes, which the Soviets were crazy for them
> they were generally accepted, because they were seen as nothing more than mercenaries doing their job
> before dawn, they'd sneak back over to German lines to continue fighting

None of my family members did anything noteworthy in their life. We've always been poor farmers.

gdad was 10 when the russians came, they fled from the town with the women to a farm and hid there

their house was bombed earlier, he saw some brigdes blown up by germans

my granny was 5 and they gave firewater to the ruskies also smearing coal on their faces to appear ugly and dirty to avoid rape

Nazis never fired on Danish civilians.

No military combat or anything like that. Family on my grandmothers side lived in North of England:
>Grandma's parents were too old to fight, so my great-grandad worked with the fire brigades to prevent too much extreme damage from the Blitz.

My dad's side were middle-class Irishmen so they didn't fight for the British like other poor-Irishmen did (they needed the money, however before that, they were involved in the 1917 Easter Rising.

My Grandad's (on my dad's side) Uncles were theatre actors who became involved with the rebels who fought in the Easter Rising. They were both in the General Post Office fighting the British during the Siege, but neither was killed luckily.

Croat here
Don't know about WW2 but right after it my grandfather was hiding some guy from the communist regime in his attic. They found them out eventually, so grandpa lost his job and spent a month or two in jail.
Also, one of my great-grandfathers allegedly got killed during the war, but recently it turned out that he committed suicide...

My Grandfather was in the middle of doing his Abitur and was also in the Hitler Jugend. My Greatgrandfather was Berufssoldat in the Wehrmacht, but he wasn't fighting on the front. At some point they escaped using a ship of some sort. My Grandfather never finished his Abitur and did a Lehre/ Ausbildung instead.

A bit from my German family:

>Grandma's cousin and his uncle were murdered by the Nazis in Grafeneck during Aktion T4
>Grandma's two brothers fought with the Wehrmacht in Jugoslavia, Greece and the Eastern Front, one of them studied medicine and was therefore allowed to stay in Germany some time
>Grandpa was a young boy, his brother was assigned to a Flak unit
>Grandpa and his family got bombed in Ulm in 1944, everyone survived luckily
>Grandma's old aunt was killed during a bombing raid on Stuttgart
>Grandma's sister was a nurse with the Red Cross and witnessed KZ prisoners in livestock wagons in Berlin
>Grandma's one brother fell during the defense of Silesia in march 1945
>Other Grandpa worked in some industry essential to the war effort, didn't get conscripted

Grandpa's uncle got executed by Germans publicly for being a communist.

OP here, my grandad was doing his Lehre (apprenticeship) too before he got drafted. He was a trained blacksmith so actually spent most of the war making horseshoes and collecting bomb shrapnel from blown out buildings to sell to blacksmiths. Eventually his mother found the shrapnel collection he and his brother had assembled under their beds and as it was highly illegal, slapped the crap out of them.

I'm sorry to hear that, which country?

Serbia. It's ok, once they got into power they named the local school after him.

German family

Maternal granddad:
>Is 17 at the end of the war
>Western front, Volkssturm or something
>One night they sleep in a barn, granddad just stays there with a friend
>Basically deserts with connivance of the captain
>Rest of the platoon dies
>American prisoner of war

Maternal grandma
>Is forced out of her home, because American officers want to use it.

Parental granddad:
>Machine gunner at Eastern Front
>He saw some shit, i would have liked to hear some stories, but never met him
>Got injured and therefore survived

Parental grandma
>was affected by the program "Heim ins Reich"
>Germans in Romania were resettled to occupied Poland
>There given a Polish farm, former owners became servants and got to sleep in the barn
>When the Russians came, they fled West

>Newsflash:
He's in Madagascar.

Interesting.

I had a grandad from Finland that was best friends with a guy that was executed by Russian commies for being a nationalist

Anyone else have useless parents in regards to family history?

>Great granddad served in WW1
>Was conscripted as a gunner and came back deaf after the war

All I know is this because my mother and uncles that grew up in the 60's didn't care enough to keep records or hand me downs (uniform or tit bits). Grandma was pretty dim in general and didn't care either.

Apparently he had souvenirs and stuff from france but one day a cold caller came and offered them hard cash, my grandmother sold and got rid of the lot.

Some American "collector" probably has my granddads war souvenirs etc somewhere

How were born then?

American reporting in.

Both of my grandfathers were in the Navy during the Pacific War, one on an aircraft carrier and the other on a destroyer. Neither killed any Japs personally but my paternal grandfather survived a kamikaze attack on his ship.

I feel you. My grandmother threw out my grandfathers Wehrmacht jacket and a bunch of photos because she didnt want them in the house because of the memories. Easy for me to be pissed off about it but I guess you do t want to be reminded of your brother and mother who starved to death and Russians raping your neighbors every time you open the closet.

Dutch family

>maternal side

Grandmother and grandfather were interned in the 'jap camps' of the Dutch East-Indies

>paternal side

Don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were collaborators with the nazis tbqh

It's impossible to feel sorry for Germans and their soppy stories about war. Maybe dont invade Poland next time for fucks sake.

My family were Irish, my great grandad was apparently almost completely apolitical, he was more concerned with his job than anything else, my grandad tried to get into Britain to enlist and fight, but he got caught trying to cross the border illegally, my grandmother never really talked about the war.

Don't know what happened on my dads side. My great grandfather was in the airforce during the war. He met my great grandmother at a stop over in Canada and took her back to New Zealand before going back to service. He had a fling with some Irish girl and got her pregnant before returning home. Somehow through all of this I now have distant Swiss family members.

My adoptive grandfather is the only story that's interesting.

My adoptive grandfather fought in the Pacific as a marine, but as I've heard from his war stories, he did not participate in combat, or did so infrequently. He was assigned to be part of the personal bodyguard for an important admiral or something. Normally, the personal bodyguard is full of really strong, tall brutes. But my grandfather is like 5'5", so the reason he was assigned to this unit was because he was basically a doppelganger for the important admiral. They would occasionally send him to relay messages for the admiral wherever it was too dangerous too send the admiral himself, on the presumption that maybe he would be shot by a Japanese spy or sniper. But a lot of the time, he was going around to dinner parties or sitting outside important strategy meetings with the other bodyguards, so I don't think his position was TOO glamorous.

>5'5''
I thought you were going to tell us he was Japanese.

My maternal grandpa was the only one who fought. He was barely old enough to be drafted, and was sent to fight in Yugoslavia for a few months before a bullet broke his leg and he got captured. Once healthy he escaped, but the war was basically over by that point. He was assigned to a garrison and saw no more action.
His brothers were too young to fight, as he was the eldest. His father was a WW1 invalid, so he didn't fight either.
My paternal grandpa was too young to fight in WW2. He had no brothers and his father died in the 30s, so no fight on that side.

Not a glorious track record, but hey you can't choose when you're born.

He fucked anons Grandmother. That's what people do to get children.

Swedish family: Did nothing
Cuban family: Did nothing

>1917
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AMERICANS OUT

British
>three of them were children and were evacuated to Wales
>grandfather was a tail gunner in a Halifax bomber throughout the war.

I'm American

Paternal Grandfather was the captain of a supply boat in the Pacific, and his brother was a Marine who fought at Guadalcanal, survived.

Paternal Grandmother joined nursing school during the war and became a stateside nurse, never went to Europe or anything.

Maternal Great Grandfather was a low level diplomat who was bouncing around Europe before the war and I think he came stateside when it started.

Step Dads father was an American captain who fought in North Africa and through Sicily and into Berlin for the end of the war.

Maternal Step-Grandfather was a German Jew who's family left before shit hit the fan in Germany, and he came back and did intelligence for the Americans. Apparently was in Hitler's bunker after everything was over, working for the proto-CIA. Not really sure how many grandmother can prove it, as he's dead now. Never got to meet him.

Grand-grandfather fought for Tito's partisans

My paternal grandfather:

>drafted with 16
>anti air unit in western / southern poland
>turned 18 during the war
>went from abandoned farm to abandoned farm with his unit
>found a lot of food, cows crying because they need to be milked
>grandfather grew up as a peasant so knows who to handle stuff
>plenty of food for all the guys, sweet war life
>retreated south before the russians came
>surrendered to american soldiers that came from southwest
>weapons and uniforms taken away and sent home
>sweet memories of good old war times
>always told nice and pleasant stories of the good times
>on time he said that if he had the chance to vote for hitler again he would do it
>I miss him

He fell from a guard tower

My Great-Greatgrandfather was apparently a member of the socialist/communist party in his hometown. He therefore was send into a KZ (I don't remember which one to my shame) and died there. Nobody knows how. My Great-Grandmother was a nurse and the fiancee to a SS-Soldier, oddly enough. He died during the war though (luckily) and she met and fell in love with a Wehrmacht soldier who would become our Great-Grandfather. I was born to late to hear or understand any of his story unfortunately and I didn't listen to the one my Great-Grandmother told us (once again, shame on me).

Dutch
Grandparents on one side were too young, though grandfather apparently served as an errand boy for the resistance by delivering food (they were farmers) to families that hid jews (the nazis here didn't do anything against a 5 year old boy).

from the other side, my grandmother survived the bombing on Rotterdam though a lot of her relatives died. She had to bury her cousins. She is a very sweet natured woman but due to this war trauma she still hates germans. My grandfather didn't do anything apart from hating germans. This side of the family however has an interesting story

>uncle of my grandfather was forced to work in Leipzig
>thought everything was lost, fathered a child in Leipzig
>war ends, returns to The Netherlands, later on tells his dutch wife and kids about this
>Actually meets his german son and family (son was a grandfather around that time) after the german reunification.
>No grudges from any side, people understand it was a difficult and weird time
>we actually have a german side of the family due to this

This is about personal stories you genius. Nobody (well, noone who's sane) questions who was in the wrong at the time. Still one can appreciate (or at least ignore) interesting stories of individuals.

On my mother's side:
Grand-Grand ma was telling them about how Italians came to their house and demanded wine and chickens.
My grandma remembers how US bombers destroyed a railroad bridge close to their home. She and her family hid into a WWI cavern, but she still remembers how blood poured from their noises, due to the pressure of the blast.
Her cousin, which was a bit older, went away from their home to check if his father, which was with the partisans, was still alive. He brought home bad news.
On father's side:
His grandma lived through bombing nearby her village, probably US planes. The whole village ran towards an railroad tunnel. She got hit in the leg by a small piece of the bomb. Lived her whole life with it in her.

Paternal great grandfather fought in WW2 briefly. He was born in 1900 and fought at the end of WW1 as a cavalryman in the Serbian army. During WW2 he was 40 something years old and didn't fight since he had to keep watch over his family farm but santed to join the Chetniks. His brother was in the Chetniks and fought in the battle of Novi Pazar. In '44 Partizans were moving through the area and they either conscripted him or he joined them voluntarily. He wasn't a communist but probably joined beacuse he wanted to kill Krauts again. I don't know if he saw action but I know that he was a guard at some Partizan camp for a while and they gave him a MP40 which we still keep at the old family home. He left the Partizans before the war ended (they let him go he didn't desert).

Maybe you two are related?

Nothing
T. latin american.

The April criminals must pay for their crimes

croat here too.
one grandfather was ustashe (fascist), the other a yugoslav partisan, both survived, the end

Slovak Family:

>Hungarians annex Southern Slovakia
>conscription into their army in october 1942
>Stalingrad happens
>flees to Soviets in November 1942
>Slavic bro, oportunity to join Red army
>Voronezh and Kharkov battles
>3 times wounded by shrapnels
>January 1944
>joins 3rd Czechoslovak independent brigade
>Dukla, Liptovský Mikuláš and Ostrava battles
>end of war
>payback time
>Jägerndorf massacre
>dies peacefuly in 1993

Czech family:

>1938
>Betrayed by allies
>occupied by Poles
>1939
>takes German citizenship and joins Wehmrmacht to avenge Czechoslovakia
>spends entire war in garrison division in France with own uncle
>1945
>Benešovy dekrety
>joins Revoluční Gardy so they wont get deported
>takes part in Postoloprty massacre
>dies peacefully in 1962 and 1977

Peruvian amerindian-mestizo.
From my mom:
Grandma:
Her grandparents were from south-center and were quechua and mestizo. Then they migrated to Cusco. They had terrains and properties. Her father owned a great house, farm, and horses.
Her mother had also properties.
Her mother dies and the family breaks apart. Her father becomes alcoholic and gets fucked up destroying his kids' education.
Granpa:
His granparents were mestizos and amerindians from the same zone as my grandma's. His other granparents were portuguese.

They brought him to the northeast of Peru to work as a miner and later fisherman.

From my dad:
Her mother came from the South probably, she looks amerindian. She doesn't remember now i think. His mestizo father abandonded the family and went to live with another one more prosper.

Both my parents lived in poor conditions. My father was a young communist intelectual who was a exceptional speaker, he worked on some radio channels, then he got redpilled and started a bussiness. He succeeded (it was the best fast-food restaurant on the stadiums of Lima) then the banks of the country broke and a lot of their assets got devalued. The company then started going down. He and my mother had run the company for decades. They started to argue and he beat her. He was addicted to bet games.

Both got divorced after going to Spain. Then my father started living on Toledo. My mother got welfare.

My father invented a bet algorythm some years ago and he suceeded.

When I was young I got my head hit against the floor(tripped on some stadium stairs), the wall of the alianza stadium, the front window of our car... I got a great mark on my forehead.

Yet I got a bit of assburguers and have a 135 IQ. It's useless though, I can't do shit without money(start a company, being an enterpreneur), I can't be "natural" so being a waiter or doing something involving being super-happy, dynamic...etc, is pretty hard, but possible, to me.
I don't have enough money to continue my degree.

forgot this:

Another Czech family:

>spends entire war in concentration camp as a political prisoner

Last Czech family:

>1945
>Germans come
>steal all food
>steal horse with car
>force grandpa to go with them to take care of horse
>leave powder cartrige bog from Lefh 18 there
>grandpa gets killed 1 week later by artilery
>Soviets on tanks come
>ask if Germans are still here
>"no"
>leave

Family fought exclusively on the side of the Allies.

Great-grandfather was a member of Eisenhower's staff at SHAEF. Helped plan the pre-invasion artillery barrage for D-Day. Was later promoted to Brigadier General during Korea at Eisenhower's insistence.

Had an uncle who was on a B-24 Liberator crew and killed in a raid over Italy.

Stepfather's grandfather (who considered me a better great-grandson than any of his biological ones because I sat and listened to his stories) was commander of a combat recovery vehicle in the Red Army. He had to go out and towed damaged T-34s back to the rear so they could be repaired, often while under fire. Fought all the way from Kursk to Berlin. Saw all kinds of fucked up shit. Villagers being forced at gunpoint to run through minefields to clear a path for the tanks. Rape and murder on a near-daily basis. Later found out his Jewish wife and children were killed by the Einatzgruppen in Ukraine.

I'm sure you know how dangerous that was, tailgunners were basically considered disposable by the RAF. Surviving even a single bombing run was quite good going.

My male ancestors died, on drowned merchant ships all over the Atlantic. Of some 10 siblings in total (both sides) only two survived (my grandpas).

My grandpa on my mother's side was a headmaster and he kept being a headmaster throughout the war. My grandpa on my father's side was a merchant of Portuguese origins who was tasked with helping the war effort by importing tea for the British troops.

I think the reason they both survived was because they were both too short to be drafted.

romanian
>maternal great-grandad was a gendarme, did guard duty in the romanian concentration camps in Transnistria (not joking); funny thing, everyone says he was a very gentle and kind person, hopefully he never tortured or mishandled the poor sods rounded up there.
paternal grandpa was a grunt on the Eastern front, dad says he deserted right after the Romanian army collapsed at Stalingrad, and walked back home covering like 1000 miles or something

Grandfather of the mothers side: fought in Russia. Got interned in siberia, broke out, walked home to southern Germany with a comrade.
Grandmother of the mothers side: was forcefully resettled to besarabia because of the Blut und Boden bullshit. Got chased by the red army back to prussia before making it back to southern Germany.
Granny of the fathers side: well of farmers daughter, lost most of her brothers in the war. Most likely some sisters, too. Didn't talk much about the war.
Gramps from the fathers side: started studying, got sent to Russia. Was interned there.

Anyone of my relatives was more or less a grunt.

Muh Evil NAZI'S!!!

jrbooksonline.com/polish_atrocities.htm

Here's your (You), now fuck off to

>Russians
>better booze
doubt

>Muh Polish atrocities
Incomparable to what Germany did to Poland

Now go back to /pol/

>not mentioning my
posts

Fuck off /pol/

My great aunt stole a ring from a crashed NAZI.

The fucker tried to strafe a bus full of civilians. Thankfully none were killed. He then got his karma back instantly when he crashed on the side of the hill on which the bus was traveling.

Locals gathered around the wreck and the pilot's body parts were spread all over the vegetation. They took his documents and valuables and left him there.

The wreckage was actually still there when I was a kid. Only got recovered a few years ago to be placed in a museum.

>Paternal Grandfather joins the Navy and sits around in Port shooting at Jap planes the one time they bomb Darwin
>Also at some point he goes to New Guinea and shoots at some more Jap planes

>Maternal Grandfather in the infantry
>Fights in Papua New Guinea
>Never got to hear him speak at all because both he and my Maternal Grandmother were years dead by the time I was born

>Maternal Aunt and Uncle who raised my mother were younger, slightly, and didn't fight

It's not a very interesting history. My WW1 history is way cooler, my Alpha as fuck great-grandfather fought in Flanders. He went on leave to Paris and got Syphilis from some lovely French girls which ultimately retired him from the remainder of the war in any meaningful way.
>100 years later, spoken French English drives me nuts
G E N E T I C S

My grandparents and their families lived in the eastern Netherlands as farmers. Germans didn't really give them much trouble from what I understand, they were both children at the time My grandmother still remembers some Hitler jokes from the time (that weren't that funny desu) The only thing of note was my grandmothers older brother, who got some kind of decoration after the war. He never wanted to talk about why he got it though and let the past be.

My Grandpartents were all too young to participate in the war.

Maternal Grandma:
> Born in 1941, lived in Hannover during the entire war.

Maternal Grandpa:
>Born in Slesia, lived there until 1945
>entire family fled form there
>Convoy strafed, aunt raped
>stayed in east germany until 1949, after proclamation of the DDR he fled to hannover

Paternal Grandma:
>was member of the BDM, always feld into the catacombs of the church during air alarm

Paternal Grandpa:
>dunno, died before my birth

lol stupid Kraut

German Family who immigrated to Australia around 1920 (Fathers side)

4 Brothers all join the army 3 of them go on to fight in North Africa with the 2nd Battalion (AIF) and fight in the siege of Tobruk.
The last brother died fought in Singapore where he became a POW and died in Burma.

(Mothers Side)

Someone was conscripted but that is about all I know

Sorry for the lack of info family 3 gens back had issues on both sides and getting any info out of whos still alive is hard.

>Riphagen

My maternal grandpa was an air force firefighter and spent time after the war spying on Turks. My paternal grandfather was on a destroyer and captured a German sub.

Maternal grandpa ended up becoming a socialist and had a bunch of mason dudes who called each other comrades show up to his funeral. Confused our family a lot.

Paternal grandpa ends up confessing to me on his death bed that he thought we never should have fought the Germans after seeing what happened to our now immigrant filled city. His best buddy died in Normandy and he blamed the allied powers more than the Germans.

German Grandpa 1:

> he was nearly 2 meters tall ...
> played the bass tuba as a young boy, once tumbled on marching thus broke his incisor teeth
> later wanted to join the SS army band - rejected just because of the teeth
> becomes a pilot instructor for gliders and propeller-driven planes (hitler-youth)
> last year of the war had to fly a few night missions with a Ju 88
> was shot down and crashed but survived
> POW of the US Army
> After the war opened a flight school for gliders when the US allowed it to him

German Grandpa 2:

> was a firefighter
> right after the war worked as an auxiliary policeman in the American Zone of Occupation

>Great Britain

Great grandfather:
>Squadron Leader in the RAF
>Controlled air bases over Aiden Somalia, told to stay in the towns but was a lit guy so always used to go for walks without bodyguards

>In Aiden (I think)
>Casually strolling about at night being a legend
>Out comes an Arab Waving a 6ft sword
>Didnt know my Great Grandad was packing dat webley
>There was forty feet between them when they stopped to make their play
>and the swiftness of my great grandad is still talked about today

My Great Grandad was a lovely man so he shot him in the arse to teach the guy a lesson but could have easily blown his head off

He always had good things to say about the Americans, they would lend him planes etc and he would lend them trucks, he had the respect of all that met him, I'm really proud to be related and glad I was able to know him before he passed

Also me

>Great Britain

Great Uncle:

>Inna Somme
>Over the top laddo
>loses all his unit, dark at this point
>Crosses path with Jerry
>Raises rifle
>Both recognise each other is wearing a cross, without saying a word they both lower their weapons
>Exchange crosses and go seperate ways

We still have the Germans Ivory crucifix in my family, I think its a beautiful story, my Great Uncle survived the war

My other Great Uncle was fighting the Turks in Gallopolli, he was part of a machinegun team and was the main gunner, he admitted to his destrement that he must of killed hundreds of Turks

m.youtube.com/watch?v=anEuw8F8cpE

Venezuelan German family
>Vacationing in the German Alps
>Gestapo show up and arrest my great grandfather
>two or three days pass, family can get no information about why he was taken
>Gestapo return with great grandfather
>he had been mistaken for a rebel operative with the same name and questioned for a few days
>when he didn't know anything they realized they had the wrong guy and let him go on his way

haha literally this

Swedish here, obviously i do not have much to tell.
My grandfather and grandmother actually met thanks to the war, they sent like different fruits to each other because of the rationing and sent letters too (not actually sure how this worked). They eventually visited each other and fell in love.
The same grandmother lived pretty close to the finnish border and even spoke finnish so she saw how the germans burned towns across the border and her family took in some finnish refuges.

>Grandpa drafted in 1939 (when he was 17)
>exclusively eastern front
>shot in the leg late during the war
>captured and sent to Ukrainian gulag
>walks home, home is now Polish
>goes to the west, meets grandma
>Grandma was widowed, did KKK during the war
>probably saw some nasty air raids, since home city was hit very often

IIRC all my great grandpas were killed by the germs except one, who was put in a slave camp and later freed by the red army.

The germs weren't as bad as the japanese though. My grandma says some of them at least (not the SS fanatics) tried to be nice to the locals, giving toys and candy to children and so on. They were killing the children's parents though so...

>germans burned towns in finland
What? Did she mean Russians?

>Swedish
>and her family took in some finnish refuges.
I see you have a long tradition of being cucked by non-white races.

My main family kept a buissness in Krakow and survived the war quietly

However, one of my relatives was beaten to death by Gestapo, and another joined the Polish first armour division in the West. He was KIA during battle of Breda, Netherlands

badass

My paternal grandfather was a Rhodesian who ran away from the farm with his brothers to join the RAF. He flew spitfires in North Africa and Italy.

My maternal grandfather was a Dutchman who spent the war in a concentration camp for political dissidence. He was liberated by the US Army a few days from starvation and refused to buy German products for the rest of his life.

My maternal granother was in the Dutch Resistance but all she did that I know of was smuggle supplies on her bicycle.

no nigger, they were doing this in 1944 when Stalin ordered Finns to attack Krauts

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapland_War
Finland switched sides in the end of the war and the germans took their revenge by burning down a couple of towns as they retreated.
The russians on the other hand never even came close to the swedish border.

my great grandpa built bombers in Scotland while trying not to get blown up

some of my other great grandparents were stuck in Poland and probably helped the Nazis

Oh, damn. Didn't know about that. Thanks!

Yeah bro, killing civilians is so badass

>takes German citizenship and joins Wehmrmacht to avenge Czechoslovakia

actualy they did, Soviets liberated part of Norway and they were next to the Swedish territory
He was it as betrayal of Western "allies" (which it was) and wanted to fight against them, also Poland occupied region where he (and I) lived, even some Polish old people here will tell you that people saw germans in 1939 as liberators from Poles.
Btw a lot of Czech fascists that werent in the most anti-german camp (people around General Gajda that supplied partisans with food and weapons) wanted to avenge Czechoslovakia by helping Germany against Poles and West.

Ukranian family which live at border

>german artillery shot their house
>great-great grandfather with his wife, brother and son die
>only one 11-years old other son alive
>run to Russia

Russian family
>great-great grandfather and 4 his brother die in every year of war, one by one
>great grandfather and 6 his brothers die at war
>great-great grandfather and woman part live in villiage and then 2 years live in occupation
>germans kill 3-years old great-grandmother and then her mother

Yagnob family (Small nation in Tajikistan mountains)
>Great grandfather and his brother go to war in 1941
>One brother die in Voronezh in 1942 in street fights
>Second brother lose half of his left leg in Stalingrad in 1943

He told you this because he did not want to admit that Hitler was right

My grandfather was an American navy pilot in the Pacific Theater. He flew Hellcats (fighter) and Avengers (torpedo bomber) off the U.S.S. Intrepid. He was highly decorated but refused to discuss his experiences.

My Egyptian grandad had it fairly comfy he worked for a British oil company and had expert knowledge in driving big tankers through the desert. He ended up leading convoys to deliver tank petrol to the western desert front. He never saw real action though. He did however see action during the 1948 fighting in Palestine. He drove aid convoys to Palestine for the U.N

Why would you fight against your old oppressor when you can fight against your current oppressor?

>my great grandfathers brother was a resistance member during the Second world war in Norway
>The police chief in a rural area was a complete Nazi shitheel who they knew "removed" people all the time.
>At the closing of the war they faked a car crash close to a woods, and he came there to inspect alone
>took him out in to the woods and shot him
>apparently he begged for his life and used the "I was just following orders" defense

you have to go back

Argie here.

One of my gramps where kids of Spanish Civil War civil war refugees. My great grandma would weight and empty books, then fill them with lead and send them to Spain to help the socialist smelt bullets.

Another one was the bastard son of an Italian entrepeneur who was abandoned at early childhood.

One of my grandmas was from a local landowner family dating back to the colony days.

The other were just Chilean inmigrants.

All of them were kids during WWII. They lived normal lifes, some in relative poverty I guess.

If you don't want to get killed, don't elect a guy who promises to eradicate multiple races and ethnic groups. Pretty basic.

because they thought Germany will win
This is reason why is undertand Jan Rys-Rozsévač´s motives and i bealive he wanted to create good conditions for us Czechs in "New Europe", he still deserved to get hanged tho.