Tell about your grandparents during WWII.
>>52352184
They were babies
maternal grandparents were in cavalry and charged at German tanks
paternal grandparents worked in a polish death camp and gassed Jews and Gypsies
one of my grandfathers was too old and the other was an Irish citizen, so they pretty much did nothing
>>52352225
Lol and about who of them u proud?
Grandfather joined the U.S. Navy in 1938. Fought at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7 1941 aboard the USS Detroit. Also saw action during the battle of Gualacanal as well as other campaigns in the Pacfic Theater. After the war he switched from the Navy over to the Merchant Marines for the Korean War.
>>52352184
siesta and fiesta with franco while rest of the world died in a stupid war
>>52352184
maternal grand father fought in north africa and italy. was in the south african air force.
paternal grandfather refused to go fight a war on the side of the british.
>>52352282
You grandfather was pretty good man. I really don't know, was U.S. army conscript during war or it was voluntarily?
>>52352184
First fighting in battle Khalkin Gol in Manchuria , second was a leader of artillery battalion. He fight with Wermacht in Belarus and later participated in Vienna offensive. He saved some Austrian jeweler from fire and he gives him golden pocket watch. This is our family heirloom. Now post your "liberator" pics scumbags.
>>52352340
There was a draft during World War II.
Maternal grandfather fought in greece and north africa, got injured and pretty much sat out the rest of the war
Paternal grandfather was still in school
>>52352335
Umm can i ask u, are u white?
>>52352299
What do spaniards think about Franco?
>>52352184
They were too young on both sides of my family.
One grandfather was a radio man who did the entire Ostfeldzug.
My other grandfather was a clerk who was in charge of buying real estate for the Reich in order to build concentration camps on. He was an apt negotiator and saved the Reich some marks. A good man.
>>52352366
most of them dont care a shit about him... personally i think he was a great leader in his time and circunstances
>>52352366
yes.
Brazil had us bases, idk perfectly but my grandpa was recruited and was go to one of those bases, but never fought
grandfather on dads side: Son of the local nazi leader, got btfo after the war.(did not have books or a desk at school because father was nazi, lol)
He is fucked up, he fell asleep at the dock, and slept trough a british bomb raid on the dock. almost killed by plane machinegun once. His brother was on his way to berlin to protect hitler, but the war ended before he got there.
Grandmother on fathers side:
Not much, was so poor she had to eat rutbaga fried in fish liver oil for weeks, lol.
Grandmother on mothers side: Lost two brothers. The first was working on a ship going to England, that suddenly dissapeared. most likely a german sub.(this was before the war reached norway, so it was pretty sad.
The other was on a royal navy ship that sunk
>>52352414
Also, pic i found on google
>>52352389
Are u realy proud of him?
>>52352351
Never posted things like that. Paternal grandfather died in war, was lieutenant of the Soviet Army, maternal came back to home after Berlin, was in Soviet-Finish and WWII.
>>52352392
Not greatest rly. He's middle-tier fascist dictator .
>>52352351
>Now post your "liberator" pics scumbags.
Can't find any
>>52352366
I'm pretty sure all the SA posters here are white. Black people tend to avoid 4chan all together because of /pol/, but there's still certainly some black posters.
>>52352394
And how it's now to live in South Africa?
>>52352424
my town attacked by british planes
>>52352424
the ship the first brother died on
>>52352455
He did his job.
>>52352184
One grandfather fought in Egypt alongside the British army. His brother was killed at Monte Casino
The other was taken POW in Crete.
Proud that they both served for New Zealand and Britain.
>>52352184
paternal grandfather worked in poortugal doing importing/exporting stuff at the time
paternal grandmother was a school teacher in canada at the time.
they did not know each other yet.
maternal grandparents were teenagers during ww2, they stayed at home.
my family made no contribution to the war effort.
grandmother on mother's side: no idea
grandfather on mother's side: born in Germany in the 30's, too young to fight in the war obviously. After the war, him and his mother lived in East Germany before fleeing the country.
grandmother on father's side: no idea
grandfather on father's side: no idea, too young to fight in the war
He died in Warsaw Uprising.
>>52352424
local nazi leader is in Quisling party yep?
>>52352524
and what job exactly?
>>52352455
well, he rised to power in a devasted spain after a civil war and he died leaving a modern Spain,9º world power.
Maybe he wasnt the greatest in a world context, but he was the greatest for us, no doubt.
In fact, he was the only fascit dictator that he mantained in the power until his death
My paternal grandfather joined the Wehrmacht in 1937 and was eventually captured in Tunisia on May 12, 1943, when the Afrikakorps got BTFO. He spent the rest of the war chilling and picking cotton in Alabama.
My maternal grandfather was a miner and spared from military service.
>>52352571
my granduncle died near Warszaw desu
>>52352582
that's the same like say Stalin was the greatest russian leader. He made USSR gratest power in the world, but he was shitty dictator who killed a lot of people in his own country.
>>52352184
One was russian liberator the other was moldovan who got in prison for refusing to fight on nazi side.
They hid in a cave for 2 years. Finally came out when mc arthur retured and pwned the filthy japs.
>>52352636
but franco didnt kill lot of people here, bro. Stalin was a bloody mad man. Franco was a patriotic and catholic man.
>>52352676
Well he did kill commies, if you're going to classify them as human.
Grandfather worked on shit in Hawaii.
His brother flew a bomber in Europe. I've seen the list of missions he went on, and it was pretty fucking insane.
My grandfather's childhood friend died in the bataan death march.
This thread is fascinating
10/10 thread
Grandpa spent 10 years in a soviet gulag before dying because of unclear reasons for being ''an enemy of the state''
>>52352676
lol so should i be proud about Pilsudski (granduncle joined polish army instead of Soviet) or think he's dictator who destroyed orthodox churches and our language, culture?
>>52352641
Sorry it took us so long, flipbro.
I only know about my granduncle, he was a fighter pilot and got shot down over Greece, crashed into the ocean
My grandparents on the maternal side were Nazis because they had a construction company and got benefits from being in the party, on paternal side nobody ever talked about anything so I guess it must've been worse
>>52352761
I think a lot of people were nazis the same like in USSR a lot of people were commies. My grandad was soviet officer and commie-party man. Just think even you aren't commie or nazi to climb the corporate ladder they must do that.
My maternal great grandfather was in the navy. I don't know anything else.
>>52352701
lel.
>>52352734
i dont know man. i dont know nothing about him, but probably he was a retard mad man like all the soviets.
>>52352864
He was polish catholic dictator (1921-1935 as i remember) btw the same as Franco. Don't kill a lot of people, but destroyed national cultures of ukranians and belarusians there (western parts of Belarus and Ukraine become part of Poland because Soviets lost Soviet-Polish war in 1921)
>>52352932
>Pilsudski
>the same as Franco
>but destroyed national cultures of ukranians and belarusians there (western parts of Belarus and Ukraine become part of Poland because Soviets lost Soviet-Polish war in 1921)
Should he apologise that your nations weren't real and you were a part of Poland? Should I remind you who gave your nation culture in the first place?
Soviet education really got into Belarusian people.
>>52352932
You lived well with franco, however, It was the religious aspect that bothered the people
>>52352972
Lol are u really think we should be your friends if you're don't even think we're real nations?
one was bombing dresden, the other was an engineer working on planes that later bombed dresden
>>52352998
>you're don't even think we're real nations?
when? You maybe would be, because we wanted to liberate Ukraine, but these cockroaches refused to ally us.
Commies castrated your religion, culture and independence and instead you cry about Poland
nigger pls
>>52353062
>liberate
liberator.png
On maternal side, grandpa was still a kid back then and were tied to a tree and left to starve for entertainment.
On paternal side, grandma fell in love with a jap soldier.
Two of my grand grand parents died in war against Germans (i am Russian)
>>52352184
Grandfather on my mom's side was in China fighting on the Japanese on the side of the Nationalists.
When they started capturing the city he was stationed in, he was injured and was sent home.
Decided to travel south to Thailand where he met my grandma.
Said he saw corpses everywhere on his trip back from the front. Grandmother said she saw them laying railroad tracks through the country.
Gramps on my dad's side was a Thai surgeon. Didn't really meet many Japs, they were too busy invading every country around us.
>>52353139
And now u live in Germany?
>>52353155
>Grandmother said she saw them laying railroad tracks through the country.
By they I mean the Japs.
>>52353163
yes
maternal grandpa- too old, but enlisted after the war
paternal grandpa- didn't see any action, but was stationed in Berlin after the war. he played in a swing band and i probably have some german cousins I don't know about
>>52353219
too young*
>>52353094
Ungrateful shit.
At least we allowed you to form some culture of your own. Belarus was the pearl in the Polish eye. Russians or Soviets would just russify you and nothing like Belarus would even exist.
sold dentistry supplies, fuking kike
Four grandparents are not born.
One of the great-grandfather was a naval officer.
My grandfather worked to build and repair bridges in the Army. The Germans would often demolish bridges while they were retreating, so, you gotta rebuild em. I was once told a story where a man working next to him was picked off by a sniper. He died in 1996
>>52353391
wow, you guys are even worse than the nazi
its good that we and russia kept you down
Grandpa was some Nazi who got recruited by the US after the war because he was smart, other grandpa fought for the US in the Pacific
Don't know much about grandmas
>>52352184
Had one grandfather in the Royal Artillery in Burma, he got malaria twice but stayed till the end of the campaign there.
Other grandfather was an Austrian Jew who fled in 1938 and joined the Royal Army in the war to help with the interrogation of prisoners of war, never saw front line action as far as I know
The Austrian was a sergeant by the end of it all if I remember correctly.
>>52352184
Paternal: Marine officer who graduated in 44 when Marine was being reduced to rubble, so he was sent to a cavalry division that had no horses left so he basically was a infantry soldier
ran away from the unit when defeat was obvious, hid in a mountain hut were a farmer stored his cheese for some weeks with a buddy until he had bowel problems and needed to look for a doctor. Thats when he found his commanding officer dressed as a nun and learned the war was over.
Became french POW, learned that french wanted to let POWs work so he escaped to an american POW camp and later went back to the soviet zone.
Other Granpa was a kid
>>52353495
>Four grandparents are not born
I'm sorry but this is too funny
displaced and used as slave labour for zee germans
>>52353648
i am so sorry
>>52353521
>you guys are even worse than the nazi
Did we target Belarusian elites?
Did we kidnapped Belarusian children?
Did we ethnic cleanse Belarusians?
Did we hand Belarusian corpses at the streets?
Did we call Belarusians subhumans?
>>52353734
lol that wasn't u at all u shouldn't be sorry for that. That's just part of history that we should remember.
My grandparents were kids during WW2. Grandma was evacuated from the city and lived with some random family in the countryside for a few years. Granddad worked as a mechanic since he was too young to join the army
>>52353734
meh. they avoided draft, and the hosts were sneaking them food (against the regulations), to keep them fed and healthy. one of them wanted to marry his daughter to my grandpa. not bad people desu
the worst thing for them was leaving the house, with an hour to pack the bags, and seeing it with nazi flags an hour later. and the horses they had to leave behind
>>52353621
Sorry.
It slipped my mind.
...Or because of I am Japanese.
Father's side: rejected for medical reasons
Mother's side: War photographer in the navy. Caught a few photos during battles against the Japs.
Wouldn't know where to find them online though
>>52353975
>tfw no cute japanese gf
>>52352184
My Grandpa was Dutch, he lived in Amsterdam during the German occupation only a few blocks from Anne Frank's house. He was in Dam Square during the Liberation celebrations in which the Nazis open fired onto the crowd. He served in the navy for quite some time and travelled all over the world, until he finally reached Sydney where he met my Grandma.
The only connection she had to the war was seeing the corpses of some Japanese POWs who hung themselves from a bridge after escaping.
The other side of my family are pompous snobs that avoided service for various reasons.
maternal great-grandfather: prisoned during the war for sabotage against the germans or something similar
paternal great grandfather: prisoned after the war for supporting the nazi party during the war. By and large a result of being afraid of commies understandably enough.
>>52354215
Are your paternal grandfather was member of Quisling party?
>>52352184
Worked in harbour in japan as i know
>>52354114
I'm not cute, so I can't grant your wish.
Two were babies, one was only 10, one was 8
Great grandparents from my father's side were evacuated from Karelia and they had to start from scratch in Western Finland after the war. Their home villages were burned down by Finns trying not to give Russians any advantage of the buildings. I think all of my great-grandfathers attended war(s) but don't know more, they didn't really want to speak about it.
>>52354269
My paternal grandmother was like 3 years old, buther father was a member. We haven't talked about it in my family, only my dad told me that he was prisoned for 2 years after the war, I think I'm the only among my cousins and siblings that know. That is why my grandmother became a psychiatrist, to try to understand the choice of her father.
Either way, being prisoned for political idea is not worthy of a rechtsstaat and it was quite a controversy around this during the 50's, with leading leftist(!) intellectuals/authors on the barricades criticizing the legal purge following WW2.
My paternal grandfather served as a sergeant in the Desert Rats, but my maternal grandfather was too young to fight.
My (polish) gf's maternal grandfather was conscripted into the Wehrmacht at the end of the war and won a medal by saving the life of an officer in a Soviet attack.
>tfw uncle served in Vietnam and Korea
>still has trauma and PTSD
>can't sleep
>was an alcoholic for years after
fuck war
>>52352184
He was killing Germans at the age of 16 and then survived 5 years in a concentration camp.
>>52354471
>gf's maternal grandfather was conscripted into the Wehrmacht at the end of the war and won a medal by saving the life of an officer in a Soviet attack.
shameful
My great grandfather, from Sicily, was in Mussolini's Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale. His son, my grandfather, was young but was supplying the local mafia with guns he'd found/stolen and hidden after the war.
>>52354580
Her paternal grandfather served in the resistance if it makes it any better. Though I don't imagine they see eye-to-eye. But I can imagine it's a difficult decision to make when someone puts a gun to your head and tells you to fight or die- especially when he had a family who might be hurt by him saying no.
>>52354371
are u a grill?
>>52354563
>tfw you will never remove Krauts with your blade.
My grand dad was in a camp too. He survived then was thrown into a Stalin's camp because if you was a captive it makes you a traitor in commie eyes.
>>52354630
it's not difficult, you fight if alternative is death. these keyboard warriors can go fuck themselves
>>52354768
I don't expect Norgay to understand any values.
>>52354815
i dont expect poland to have any real self-insight
>>52352184
great grandfather fought in red army,and germans burned house of his wife - my great grandmother.
>>52354842
Poles rather died than joined Wehrmacht.
>>52354896
we wuz kings and shiet
Paternal great-grandfather was on the arctic convoys shipping supplies to Murmansk and Arkangelsk.
Maternal great-grandfathers were miners so sat it out. Not that working in a mine was much better.
Most of my grandparents were born during the war.
my grandpa and grandma were gassed when they were 6y old.
>>52354896
Lol really don't think so
Here was draft army during german occupation (really that was just part of Wehrmacht of course), our country had the most known anti-nazi resist, but if you don't came there when nazis said they'll kill you so 60 000 of belarusians came to recruiting stations of nazis, 30 000 fought for them. Everyone wanted to save his life.
maternal grandparents helped on supplying weapons to guerrillas
paternal grandparents helped on supplying weapons to the Japanese
>>52352184
Maternal:
Grandpa was 12 his town was taken by Germans, he escaped and worked in a soviet factory making ammunition. His brother was in the infantry and died in offensive battles near Brest.
Grandma was 10 and taken to a labor camp by Germans but survived because she got typhus and the camp guards fled the camp forgeting to shoot the inmates that were kept in a separate place due to being contagious.
Paternal
Grandpa joined the red army at the start of the war got injured, recovered and went back to service. Participated in battles for Warsaw and Berlin. Was military governer of a German town.
Grandma was allowed to leave Siberia where she and her family were exiled for being enemies of the people. Worked at a telegraph station.
>>52354896
Except for Tusk's grandpa.
My Grandpa died in a concentration camp ;_;
He fell from a guard tower
My grandfather died in Auschwitz, some guy fell on him from guard tower
Paternal grandfather was in india and germany as a spitfire engineer
Maternal grandfather was in north africa, and later went to korea, never ever wanted to talk about it.
>>52355039
Always remember.
>>52354719
In my eyes he will always be a war hero.
In the eyes of communists he was a royal officer that survived slavery. Commissariat didn't come to our village until the late fifties. And then they were forced by the whole village to tolerate him and his farm.
Even the biggest communists from the village, that hated him and our whole family, protected him.
One grandparent was expelled from the Sudetenland and had to make a forced march as a child.
The other used to be a flak crew member but deserted the army when he got ordered to defend berlin.
>>52354936
t. 'nation' rich by accident
>>52354972
You don't know much about Polish history, do you?
>>52354993
>kashuby scum
>poles
He was Ingrian so he could speak fluent Russian and Finnish, he used that to troll people.
He said that after 25 kills it felt like moose hunt. Lived pretty cozily after the wars, he was quite wealthy and all.
Maternal grandfather was in a mortar team in red army
Paternal grandfather was sabotaging train in France with his friend. He was a railwayman. His friend was caught and executed by the german.
>>52355144
lol are u kidding? Tbh polish history and belarusian history from 1500's to 1939 is literaly the same
ITT: all these faggot granpas fighting on the wrong side
you ruined europe, bolschewist and allied scum
>>52355190
You misspelled Grand duchy of Lithuania's history
>>52355058
>>52354511
>implying war isn't fun
>not being descended from 10+ generations of soldiers
One grandpa was on the westfront. Got send there to fight against France but the fight was over when he arrived so he stayed in Paris till the war ended.
He kept and preserved everything from that time and locked it in a room.
>>52355190
Then you should know that Poland was the only place they couldn't form Wehrmacht division.
>>52355193
Hitler allied Bolsheviks.
My grandmother when talking of the war and what living with Wermacht soldiers was like:
"Guess where you got your blonde hair from boi?"
But jokes aside, one great grandfather carried on his day to day life in the Occupation because let's face it, nazi rule was the good stuff, although he told one of his resistance friends about the location of a V2 site that the Germans had commissioned his company to work on. He almost died in the subsequent attack by British Hurricane fighters that bombed the V2 launch pad. And err that's it. Most won't talk about it. Whatever though, I can still tell interesting WW1 and Napoleonic stories if anyone inquires about my family.
>>52355193
Start shit - get hit
Grandfather got drafted with 16 near the end of the war. He defended a bridge in western Germany and then went home when the war was over.
>>52355214
One of my great-grandfathers was on the Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen and helped sinking lots of british vessels, like the HMS Hood.
>>52355300
>that dog
nightmare fuel
>>52355221
Lithuania too btw
But in Poland was Granatowa policja also
>>52355517
>Lithuania too btw
Oh yeah. Especially when their nazi "people" were cleansing ethnic Poles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponary_massacre
On my mom's side :
My grandfather was in Normandy during all the war, he helped the american when they arrived, he told me a shitton of stories about life during the war
My grandma was in free France in southern France
On my father's side, both of my grandparents were in Brittany, in Brest, the city got completly destroyed during the war, that's why it's been rebuilt
>be Granadad's brother
>save money to go to America
>no jobs
>join the navy
>deployed to pearl harbour
>jap attack
>survive and come out of the war a racist
>>52355547
Most of people there was just german nazis and some lithuanian collaborates, just in Lithuania there wasn't even one SS division, when even in Belarus nazis formed one and in Latvia formed Latvian legion with 130 000 people.
Great grandfather was a infantryman who got hit by a granade and he didin't stand heat, because granade shards on his body would heat up. He never told me any war stories, but it must have been hell, because after war he flipped out and used to drink booze every day and got locked up to jail after all.
>>52355221
>Then you should know that Poland was the only place they couldn't form Wehrmacht division.
wrong.
>All these butthurt poles in this thread.
>>52355579
Brest 1945
We do not forget, we do not forgive. The eternal Anglo shall one day know our wrath.
My great grandfather on my moms side was an Ustaše. He served as a translator . He was taken prisoner and they spared him because he showed sympathy for Serbia and he didn't do anything except translate Italian into Croatian
My great grandfather on my dad's side was an Ustaše but he switched sides in 1944 because he was scared his family would get killed if he continued supporting the Germans.
After the war they later joined the communist parties because they felt it was their only chance to try to become normal in a new Yugoslavia
>>52356173
Didn't he support the Kashubs and felt that Silesia a were actually Germans?
>>52356609
Kashubs are traitors and Silesians are Silesians.
>>52356445
>flag
Literally who?
My grandfather was survived.
And my grandmother saw B-29 in Japan.
She said B-29 was so big.
Not my grandfather,but my parents says grandfather′s brother was dead with submarine.
>>52352184
They were both children.
Because, as unbelievable as it is, I'm not over 30 years old.
>>52356609
I have no idea but we did not have wehrmacht division either.
Poles are not special snowflakes like theyl ike to think ITT desu.
>>52357093
Oh yes I forgot about my grandmothers.
They were both children as well.
Grandmother was just a girl living in germany. I'm not sure exactly when or how she came to Sweden.
Grandfather was a young Swedish boy and probably just spent his free time fishing, insect watching and pole vaulting.
>>52357093
Well yes. As I'm of the older stock I can tell you something, but not much. My other grandfather mostly operated a field kitchen and the other something I'm not actually sure, maybe he was released.
Grandfather:#1
too young but In his family survived only the father and two brothers.they are 11 brothers
Grandmother:#2
too young but (family secret) her fathere save a lot jew
Grandmother#2:i dont know
Grandfather#2:i dont konw
I speak English very bad
My grandmother had to host a bunch of Nazis in her house for a while but she thought they were rude so she didn't make their beds properly. Apparently Schindler was also among them and he was the only polite one so she did make his bed properly and he even left a thank you note but it's lost now.
My grandfather went to Germany to do "business" but that's all me and my mother know.
I don't know much about the other side of the family other than that a my grandfather's brothers were killed and he ended up an only child after the war.
>>52352577
yep, Nasjonal Samling
Grandfather get captured and jailed from 1940 to 1944 by boches
Grandmother escaped in south of France
>>52352184
Maternal grandfather fought in the Pacific as an artillery gunner on a ship.
Paternal grandfather managed to make his way through Spain from the military school(got captured by the fascists for a couple of months) then joined the Free French army in North Africa. Started fighting as an officier during the italian campaign. He still had a Nazi officier dagger and a Walther PPK when he died, don't know who inherited them though.
>>52357681
what is it with italians and their abysmal english
i have a lot of italian lecturers at my university, they can speak german decently usually but all of them are absolutely horrible at english, even moreso than the average german lecturer
>>52357845
>Apparently Schindler was also among them and he was the only polite one so she did make his bed properly and he even left a thank you note but it's lost now.
>Stories that absolutely happened
>>52352184
They were children, they used to go into bomb shelters and eventually were sent to the countryside for safety
>>52352225
My grandfather also gassed Jews in a deathcamp, strange.
>>52352184
my grandfather was born during ww2 on italian clay generously given to his parents by kind slovenians who apparently didn't need it any more
>>52352184
Denying visas to jews and reporting commies to Vargas, it was fun until the Americucks forced us to side with the allies .
My grandparents were peasants and weren't affected by the war at all
grandfather was mechanic in RAF
grandmother was in theresin concentration camp
other grandmother has cool story from ww2
they lived in small village and at the end of the war they saw german plane was shot down near by...all village went to woods to capture these bloody nazis but they just found 2 wounded young boys...they hidden them bcs russians were coming and tranposrt them to advanced US army from west
>>52359571
That's what they told me, I dunno if it's true.
Winter and Continuation war, all of them.
>>52352184
Grandfather was a submariner
>Sunk lots of jap ships
>In a war subs are one of the best places to be.
My greatgrandfather never came back from stalingrad
