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My dad was born in 1932, so too young to fight in the war. But his brother was at Dunkirk in 1940, and was captured and kept prisoner for five years.
My grandmother grew very fond of the young American soldiers she met, and would invite them in for a cup of tea, and something to eat. She didn't have much with rationing, but made them a sandwich. She would listen to them talking of home, some weeping for their mothers. They were only kids really. They would give my dad chewing gum, and teach him American slang.
She used to talk to me about those young soldiers 20 years later. She wondered if they made it home. Some probably didn't.
I did my army training only 40 miles from Southampton in Farnborough. Small world huh?
Your reminiscence reminded me of one of my favorite WWII films . . .
My mother was born in 1931 and grew up in the Alps of Switzerland during WWII. Her family of 11 siblings and my widowed grandmother lived in a barn, one-half for the animals and the other half converted to a rental. A refugee camp was nearby in the same town. Very hard times ... many times pet animals were stolen for food. One time an American pilot crash landed in a nearby lake.
I was born in 1957 in the U.S, but remember even in kindergarten in California, families from Germany and their kids being shunned as " *** Nazi's." One incident I remember my middle school teacher in our class who was angry at a German student and called him some names ... I won't go into it but it was ugly.
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I enjoyed this one very much. There was a great deal of respect for the members of the Wehrmacht in the fifties. Amazon has the movie; it's an extraordinary tale of courage and determination. His river crossing is magnificent.
My dad was a WWII nut and so was DH at one time. I read a lot about it when I was young. One novel about two Jewish girls hiding in the attic of a gentile family fascinated me, I read over and over as a teen.
The Diary of Anne Frank, perhaps? It was a great book and a true story. Their dad survived and was the one who had it published after the war. There was a fascinating documentary about it on TV a few weeks ago. Can't remember what channel. But keep an eye out for it . . . it's worth watching.
Can't speak re the UK but in the US, "Flowers in the Attic" is a famous (infamous) and florid gothic novel, the first in a series, about adolescent incest in an attic, and nothing at all to do with WWII.
I just checked, and you're right........ oops.........
^^^ maybe they're not an experienced user? Or offline?
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