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Uberskooper posted:I don't get how there are SS men still alive and admit who they were. Aren't there organizations that hunt these guys like dogs? What do they do with themselves after the war? Who wants to hire an SS guy? Maybe he was talking about the Waffen-SS? As far as I know they had their fair share of draftees who didn't have much of a choice about joining.
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Namarrgon posted:My German housemate tells me high school history for her was essentially a 6(?)-year WW2 guilt trip with some French Revolution at some point. And this is a prestigious mayor cosmopolitan German school, not a backwater shack. Yeah, that's fairly accurate. I'd say about 2/3 of my history classes were about the 3rd Reich in one way or another. It was also covered in some other classes and there were day trips to a KZ (we had a subcamp of Buchenwald right around the corner from the school), the holocaust memorial in Berlin and the site of the Wannsee conference. So yeah, it's pretty extensively covered in school.
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Frostwerks posted:Whoa guys, let's not go around talking poo poo about all the nazi's positive achievements. You know, things like: Poor Adolf never catches a break:  (The myth of Hitler destroyed: Even his Autobahns are poo poo)
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JaucheCharly posted:Emmigration isn't so easy. It's not like today, where you're free to travel. If you're unlucky, the only countries that will take you are Denmark or Holland, so welcome back to the Wehrmacht a year or two later. That reminded me of a pretty depressing local story I recently heard. It was a small family of farmers (mother, father and one son), and the son got past the initial waves of the draft because they contributed to actually keeping the soldiers fed. But as things got more desperate he too was eventually called up for his examination. His father suggested that he should pretend that he was mentally handicapped to get past it, and it actually worked. However, that meant that under the eugenics program he was immediately scheduled for forcible sterilisation (reputedly through castration, though I'm not certain if that was a commonly used method). He couldn't exactly retract his story because that'd likely have lead to a death sentence, so he had to go through with it. It was so traumatising to him that he killed himself with poison some time later. His father hanged himself after that, blaming himself since he'd given him that advice in the first place. The mother, too, killed herself shortly afterwards, leaving their farm entirely abandoned. 
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