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Originally Posted by 11B Lifer
A foot note: During WW2 the Netherlands defended its boarders about a week-capitulated and approx. 14000 Dutch men joined the Nazi SS-In the earley 1980's, at least you could not find a Dutchman who had served in the German Army.
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And every Frenchman was in the Resistance ;D
As a kid, my best friends Grandparents came to live with them. one summer. On a book shelf after they moved in I noticed a one-liter sized pewter stein with a crest engraved on it. When I asked what it was his Grandfather gently took it out of my hands and said that it was his Unit Stein, from when he was in The War. His grandparents were from Hungary and it was a few weeks before it dawned on me that his war was WW1, not WW2 which to my parents was The War. It was very hard to look at this jovial little man in a wool cap and think that once upon a time, to my Great Uncles, he was the Enemy.