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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
I also think of the civilians caught up in war. My partner is from Germany and both of her parents had very hard times. His family fled on foot from what is now Poland to west Germany digging over old potato farms hoping to find some that everyone else had missed. He ate naught but snow for 8 days. She was in the Ruhr Valley (Diesburg I think) and was bombed by the yanks by day and and the poms by night. Days at a time in air raid shelters with the earth shaking. Neither of them were 10 when the war ended. Then they were in a shattered country. What did they do to deserve that?
PS Reading this again I realized that it might seem that I was being partisan about the rights and wrongs of that war. I wasn't. That is just the example that I know.
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I can relate to that...my family had combatants on both sides, in both wars. Pop actually went AWOL about 3 weeks after the war ended to visit the rellies to see if they made it through OK. Visited rellies both in the UK and Germany. Crazy thing was if they'd have known that family was on the field whilst they were fighting, they'd have probably all gone AWOL
Ended up somewhere neutral like Switzerland, in a tavern drinking beer and schnapps