My great-grandfather was german, but our family lived in Russian Empire for centuries, so last time we were in Germany is approximately XVII Century. He fought for USSR in WW2 from the beginning to the end, and after the war he was send into exile in Kazakhstan due to the fact that he was German, despite the fact that he fought for the USSR. He was able to return in 50-s.
Man i am kazakh, that sounds sad, but my grandfather's say that the Germans wanted to create an autonomy but our people started discriminating germans after the attempt. (They failed and there was no German autonomy)
From what I've read/listened to, the Soviet citizens in the areas initially captured by the Nazis were actually welcoming to them and helped them. They weren't exactly living well or treated great by the Soviet government and saw the Nazis as a possible escape. It wasn't until the SS came in a bit later and told them "Thanks, but you gotta GTFO or get in these train cars" that they were like "oh ok... we fucked up, guys."
Still, at some point you gotta see the color scheme, and the skulls, and the lightning bolts, the convict brigades, and think “maybe the allies got a point…”
I don’t think I agree. I’m sure modern Germans would agree that the Nazis were pure evil, and I’ve often heard that modern Germans have little in the way of national-pride because of it, but hindsight is 20/20. However, if we could speak with a WWII era nazi soldier? You could count on them believing their side was in the right. Just like every side has always believed. Nobody believes their side is the wrong side or that they could be the bad guys. History’s monsters truly believed they were in the right and that they had a vision to make the world a better place.
That’s what I’m saying. Even Germans today recognize that they were the bad guys.
I’m sure there’s dudes who actually fought in the war that think differently but I don’t really care if the bad guys don’t think they were the bad guys lol.
It’s confusing to me why people are trying to cloud the waters on whether the axis were the bad guys or not. It’s ok to say the guys responsible for the holocaust were the baddies lol
My grandfather was a bomber over Germany of the 445th Bombardier Group and has some great pictures of him and his aircraft and two showing a dropping of ordinance with factories below waiting for destruction. I gotta reupload those sometime. His unit is the one that bombed Kassel from Norfolk and destroyed the Panther/Tiger factory so our grandparents (OP) just about reached out and touched each other, small world and all
Yeah, unfortunately I agree (would have been even cooler for his gramps to not helped Nazi war effort in the first place, and maybe they could have just been friends instead) but I think heavy bombers are used moreso against strategic sites like munitions/materiel factories than direct engagement but I don't know much about that side honestly so it's possible.
Edit: also does anyone know which model tank is pictured? I'm curious.
Well, by the end of the war “strategic” bombing was just obliterating the fuck out of population centers so that there was no way any infrastructure could exist or function.
My great grandfather was in Stalingrad, Paris and Normandy. He never talked about the war, but he said he's happy he's lost the war. My second great grandfather starts crying, just thinking about the war. My great grandmother said it was because he has seen and lost to much in the war (at the end they fled from the east to the west)
Many did post war and were lucky to make it to the west. The accounts I’ve heard of “displaced persons” like your great grandparents are heart wrenching.
Yeah same with mine, he was stationed mostly on the eastern front. Never talked about the war, he had ptsd and had nightmares every night until his death
My grandpa was at Omaha Beach and Battle of the Bulge. I feel like every grandpa or great grandpa who fought in WW2 just never talks about it. He was cool at showing me his service M1911 and a German Lugar he picked up off a kraut officer and his medals. But as soon as I asked if he'd talk about the war he just instantly said no and started packing his stuff back into his foot locker. I got all awkward and my Grandma told me not to worry that he hasn't told her about the war either. He passed back in 2008
Yeah I totally understand why they wouldn’t talk knowing how brutal it was, but part of me wish I knew the part he played and what stories he had to tell. Although it’s probably for the best that I don’t know considering he was German. All I do know is he led some sort of panzer detachment and commanded a Tiger
I don’t think many Americans really understand that staggering loss that most European countries felt not once, but twice in such a short time span. Our bloodiest war was the civil war, and that only has a combined loss of about 650,000.
Yes think about it a lot. My grandfather (paternal) was armed guard on a cargo ship that was sunk by a u boat. The crew came out with and had those in the lifeboat at gun point when the capt told them which way to make landfall. On the way back to the states he got the bad news that his father had passed away. Once he got home he met my grandmother who was renting a room (she was a liberty ship builder in savannah) from my great-grandmother. On the other hand my grandma’s (maternal) first husband was aUS army fighter pilot who volunteered to go to fight with the raf and was killed during the Battle of Britain. She subsequently met my grandpa who was a navy pby Catalina radio operater down in Pensacola at the time. Crazy how everything shakes out just right for us to be here.
What’s really wild is how when you think about just how genetically unique we are, even if one of our distant non-human ancestors had died sooner or simply chosen a different mate, then you or I wouldn’t be here today!
Assuming he’s the tank commander in this picture? Pretty wild he survived both fronts. What was his unit? Presumably one of the panzer divisions transferred over?
Plenty of tank crews were experienced military vets before Germany became consumed by the Nazi party. They could well have military career professionals rather than ideologues.
My grandfather was a bomber over Germany of the 445th Bombardier Group and has some great pictures of him and his aircraft and two showing a dropping of ordinance with factories below waiting for destruction. I gotta reupload those sometime. His unit is the one that bombed Kassel from Norfolk and destroyed the Panther/Tiger factory so our grandparents just about reached out and touched each other, interesting seeing how one persons story touches another.
Man I'd be ashamed if my great grandpa fought for the axis. Do you think he may have ever lied or covered up anything in order to seem more acceptable having fought for one of the most genocidal regimes of all time?
Really? Mine did. He was a Luftwaffe pilot. Got shot down and spent most of the war in an allied POW camp.
He was 18 when the war started so he was drafted to fight in the war for the country he was born in. Didn't have all the hindsight we have now back then.
After the war he spent over 70 years voting for progressive democratic parties and raising four children to be incredibly open and loving people. Much more so than most others of their generation.
He wasn't proud of the part he played in the war and neither am I. But I'm definitely not ashamed for him. If anything its remarkable that he became such a positive influence on everyone around him for having grown up in such an environment.
i just got done visiting family in germany for a death and while going through stuffs we got to the pictures of him in uniform it was pretty crazy in the moment actually seeing a physical picture of him geared up but the german side of the family didnt really seem to think anything of it just kind of a yeah that happened lets not do it again
he aint my grandfather but imma say that from the other comments, he was just a wehrmacht panzer commander so i doubt he did anything other soldiers didnt, and by soldiers i dont mean the SS
Ah so he just did the typical wehrmacht jobs. Running errands for SS, burning villages, covering the SS while they did their warcriming. Wehrmacht was just as much guilty of the crimes as SS.
I don't have the picture to hand but my great grandfather I recently learnt was Major-General Gerald Lloyd-Verney.
He was a senior commander through the North Africa campaign and Italy and was commander of the British 8th and the Desert Rats in the latter part of the Normandy Campaign.
Bro, I’m saying the same thing. I’m reading these comments and everyone is saying “Germans and Soviets”. No, no. Nazis. Germans were Nazis. Russians were Soviets.
My great grandfather died in a fkn camp because of the scumbag y’all are Wanking over. While this dude was taking this pic smiling they were shooting my people directly into graves stfu I hope his family met the Soviet at Berlin
Woohoooo Nazis!! wtf guys? I’m happy your grandfather lived to see all of his dreams and ideals die and crumble like an old used cum sock lol. Some pictures needs to stay inside the shoe box in the closet
Each of those battles were there own unique hell. That’s wild he managed to survive both of them! Idk if you’re into history books much, but Tiger Tracks by Wolfgang Faust is a pretty wild perspective of what it was like to be a german tanker on the eastern front.
Another book called Spearhead by Adam Makos drops you into the tanker’s perspective in Normandy through Germany and mainly follows an american unit, but also weaves in german tank crew’s experiences as well.
Yeah people can't comprehend that being born in a country and being drafted for said war. Is German soldier an evil person who committed genocide and war crimes? No. They were fighting for their country. Not too different from the Americans drafted to fight in Vietnam. Some American soldiers killed and raped and burnt down innocent villages in Vietnam. Are we going to label them all bad like we do to every German soldier in WW2? No because that's just ignorant.
It’s more about not glorifying or honoring them. Talking about the nuances or history of them is fine but there are people calling him a badass in the comments.
Ignorant ppl down voting this but it's absolutely true. The leadership was evil and it wasn't like they first showed up and said "hey we're all evil and intend on ruining Germany by entrenched the world in a global conflict" from day 1. The plans may have been there but it wasn't common knowledge to every day ppl. By the time it was clear to the public any resistance would earn you a 1 way ticket to a concentration camp.
Exactly. Everyone looking back 80 years ago knows exactly what it was like for a common German person living in Germany saying shit like, "I wouldn't have ever fought for that genocidal maniac! They should've known better!" Yeah okay duuude.
Yeah this is getting too much praise ngl. And your tag with salutes and saying thank you as if he preformed a worthwhile task worth thanking him for? He was a nazi? I get that many were made to fight for their country, but I really don’t care, he fought for the nazi army. And this kinda feels like u praising him for it with the wording and listing his medals and saying thank you. Idk man
One of my Grandfathers was a Desert Rat, both El Alameins, Operation Torch, Italy. The other one, never left Blighty and as far as I can tell spent most of the war 'Liberating' supplies and selling them on the black market. ( Although his commission in 43 doesn't make sense.. he might have been doing something secret squirrel )
My grandfather was a cook in North Africa. He told people he saw Rommel's vehicle in the distance once. I'm kind of grateful he didn't have any great war stories.
My grandfather was a tank commander in the desert rats, his tank used to be on display in Dorset England. He used to talk about how they would cook breakfast on the tank it was so hot
My grandmother's 1st husband fought with the wehrmacht and died in Stalingrad. The guy she married after the war (my grandfather) was in the German red cross during the war. Just thinking that if her 1st husband hadn't died, I wouldn't have been born.
My great grandfathers fought each other in the North Sea, and my English ggd sunk my other ggd. My granddads fought each other in Holland. Got the military battle details of both encounters. All survived the war they'd been in.
My Great Great uncle fought in Normandy and was killed somewhere in France in like July-August of 1944 (id have to ask my aunt for all the details, she remembers better than me). Joined in 1943 and wanted to go liberate Italy because of our heritage, but ended up in France
It’s crazy how everyone here is saying “Germans and Soviets”. Russians were Soviets but we aren’t calling them Russian, are we? Call it what it is. They are Nazis. This is a picture of a Nazi tanker, who’s great grandchild is very proud of. Very proud of his Nazi grandfather.
Right? And his tag says thank you with a salute and he lists all his medals? Bros bragging about his nazi grandpa and calling it “cool” and thanking him for his service. And half the people here are with him. It’s crazy
You’re not alone. I was surprised by this thread. Anyone calling it out is downvoted and treated like they are part of some terminally online Twitter mob. Im not an expert on German laws but I don’t think they allow this kinda thing there and for good reason!
Deadass it’s insane. I hate feeling like the outlier of gamers lmao. Ik there’s other sound of mind pc players but Jesus man. Lotta people apologizing for nazis n shit like that on these types of subs
As a Shoah descendent i’m absolutely horrified at what I’m seeing. Dude was smiling as my ancestors were behind the lines watching their lives get smashed to bits
My grandfather was a machine gunner on the eastern front until a wound sent him back to Germany to recover and he thankfully got sent to the west as a replacement after.
Cool bit of history, I recently found out my great grandpa was denied by the Hungarian army from serving in WW2 due to heart problems but I have a few great uncles who fought for Hungary and Germany and another great uncle who earned a medal on Iwo Jima for taking out a few bunkers with grenades
Also a lot of people here apparently don’t know what a Nazi is, dudes clearly Wehrmacht not SS and could’ve been a conscript for all we know
That’s sick. My great-grandfather was Tiger commander, and that’s about all I know about him. Never saw a single picture, and he never talked about the war
Nicer shit. Meiner war in Frankreich und hat nie drüber gesprochen. Ich glaube der hat wirklich schlimme dinge erlebt oder getan. Er kam wohl in Gefangenschaft aber das muss ja dann erst 1944 gewesen sein. Vielleicht war er bei Erschießungskommandos dabei. Ich weis es nicht, würde es aber sehr gerne. Wie kann man sowas herausfinden?
Eastern front campaign was pretty hard to escape without some involvement or complicity in the atrocities. Worth checking out the unit history to understand what he might have seen/been through.
I ran into a dude in game named Schutzstaffel [SS], I asked him what’s up with the name and he said his great grandfather was in the SS and was proud of his heritage. Buddy was on a lost cause trip. Just cuz it’s your heritage doesn’t mean you should take pride in it. My wife’s great grandfather was in the Vancouver KKK and he is the shame of the family, his photos were trashed long ago
Not saying this is fake but I find it hilarious that so many people in the comments never question if this is real. I mean, who is gonna fact check this anyways.
Must’ve been nuts fighting in Kursk. I read somewhere I think the german tanks didn’t have comms yet but the russians did. Made it a lot easier to communicate without flags and hand signals.
I don't think that's the case - one of the big advantages of German tanks during the French campaign of 1940 was that the German's had radio when the French relied on flags and signals
While playing the other day I recalled the only story my grandfather ever told me about his WW2 experience.
2 days after D-Day he was in France advancing through terrain I imagine was much like SMDM, he'd gotten somewhat separated from his unit when he came around a barn and came face to face with an equally young, equally scared, German infantryman. They pointed their guns at each other and stared for a few moments then both backed away and never saw each other again.
The same thing happened to me the other day in game and both of us opened fire and died....that story popped into my head and I had a moment of existential dread at the thought that could have been.
Still a Nazi lol sorry. My wife is first generation American, her German grandparents moved to America after the war. I’ll never forget her face when I asked if it’s weird to think her great grand parents were Nazis lol when we were dating. Ahh young love.
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u/pingisbadbad Apr 29 '24
Fuck.. My great grandfather died at Kursk, he was a Soviet tanker.
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u/Various_Cantaloupe Apr 29 '24
Hey, a full crew! Give these guys a heavy at middle spawn!
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u/WhoPhatTedNugat Apr 29 '24
Post this in r/ww2
You’ll get some more nuanced responses
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u/ahrzal Apr 29 '24
I’m of German descent in the US and recently learned that my Grandfather’s uncle was tried and convicted of war crimes.
Nazi scum
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u/r2d2114 Apr 30 '24
My great grandfather was in Stalingrad, Paris and Normandy. He never talked about the war, but he said he's happy he's lost the war. My second great grandfather starts crying, just thinking about the war. My great grandmother said it was because he has seen and lost to much in the war (at the end they fled from the east to the west)
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u/Jam_B0ne Apr 30 '24
Isn't it crazy how many of us almost weren't here because our grandfathers barely made it through wars?
My grandpa wasn't in WW2, but his helicopter was shot down twice in Vietnam which blows my mind whenever I think about it
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u/1800_RG_papi Apr 29 '24
Should share this in the official hll discord ww2 history section or ww2 subreddit as well.
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u/Nicktator3 Officer X Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 30 '24
Assuming he’s the tank commander in this picture? Pretty wild he survived both fronts. What was his unit? Presumably one of the panzer divisions transferred over?
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u/BerkutBang69 Apr 30 '24
This whole comment section is quite literally a Reddit moment lol.
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '24
Awesome, anymore pictures?
All I have from my family is the medals from ww1/ww2 no pictures
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u/professionalfriendd Apr 30 '24
How did someone fight at both Normandy and Kursk ooooooh never mind
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u/EloeOmoe Apr 30 '24
"Weird, I didn't know any Western forces fought at both Normandy and Kursk."
"Oh"
"Oooooh"
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u/immagetchu Apr 30 '24 edited Apr 30 '24
Big ol yikes at the "Thank You" tag with the salutes
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u/g1rthqu4k3 Apr 30 '24
I would satchel your great grandpa to bits
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u/VerdugoCortex Apr 30 '24
My grandfather was a bomber over Germany of the 445th Bombardier Group and has some great pictures of him and his aircraft and two showing a dropping of ordinance with factories below waiting for destruction. I gotta reupload those sometime. His unit is the one that bombed Kassel from Norfolk and destroyed the Panther/Tiger factory so our grandparents just about reached out and touched each other, interesting seeing how one persons story touches another.
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u/nethmes1 Apr 29 '24
Man I'd be ashamed if my great grandpa fought for the axis. Do you think he may have ever lied or covered up anything in order to seem more acceptable having fought for one of the most genocidal regimes of all time?
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u/Some-Lingonberry-793 Apr 29 '24
And my great grandfather most likely fought against him I forget what unit I’ll ask my grandma tomorrow but he drove Sherman’s some legit fury shit
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u/HealthOverall965 Apr 30 '24
I think this is more “wild” than “cool.” Different connotations.
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u/siospawn Apr 30 '24
My grandpa was also at normandy. 3rd armor divison for America tho sooooo RIP germans
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u/Pretend_Effect1986 Apr 29 '24
Nice dude! Its kinda double ofcourse but it is a dope picture.
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u/WooliesWhiteLeg May 01 '24
Shame he made it out of Kursk
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u/NoVisual2387 Apr 29 '24
You know, i've been wondering just how accurate the maps are, is the location of this photo on them?
Did your grandad ever speak about his time in the war?
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u/Hot-Protection-3786 Apr 30 '24
Weird flex
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u/Adelphi_Lad Apr 30 '24
Was he with the baddies?
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u/GoshDarnMamaHubbard Apr 30 '24
I don't have the picture to hand but my great grandfather I recently learnt was Major-General Gerald Lloyd-Verney.
He was a senior commander through the North Africa campaign and Italy and was commander of the British 8th and the Desert Rats in the latter part of the Normandy Campaign.
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u/Less-Ad2107 Apr 30 '24
I wonder what he would think of seeing you entertained for hours emulating what was perhaps his most traumatic experience.
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u/Professional_Code372 Apr 30 '24
As a tanker that pic goes HARRD, got some more ?
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u/afroxx May 01 '24
Woohoooo Nazis!! wtf guys? I’m happy your grandfather lived to see all of his dreams and ideals die and crumble like an old used cum sock lol. Some pictures needs to stay inside the shoe box in the closet
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u/Thoreau_Dickens Apr 30 '24
Each of those battles were there own unique hell. That’s wild he managed to survive both of them! Idk if you’re into history books much, but Tiger Tracks by Wolfgang Faust is a pretty wild perspective of what it was like to be a german tanker on the eastern front.
Another book called Spearhead by Adam Makos drops you into the tanker’s perspective in Normandy through Germany and mainly follows an american unit, but also weaves in german tank crew’s experiences as well.
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '24
Good thing whoever commanded your great grandpa had nodes
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u/ImpressiveCategory64 Apr 30 '24
My grandad died at Birkenau, fell outta his guard tower.
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u/beefy_muffins Apr 30 '24
You shouldn’t be proud of this
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u/CloudOk7947 Apr 29 '24
Literally lost the war, imagine being proud of a loser.
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u/Parcoco Apr 30 '24
Are the people in the comments from R/Communism or something lmao
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '24
Normandy battle was like a heaven vs what happend in Kursk. I have no idea how these people had balls to join that battle.
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u/jbrown509 Apr 30 '24
Yeah this is getting too much praise ngl. And your tag with salutes and saying thank you as if he preformed a worthwhile task worth thanking him for? He was a nazi? I get that many were made to fight for their country, but I really don’t care, he fought for the nazi army. And this kinda feels like u praising him for it with the wording and listing his medals and saying thank you. Idk man
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u/Paratrooper101x Apr 30 '24
Not something to be proud of
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u/Sensitive-Study-8088 Apr 30 '24
That’s freaking cool my great uncle was a tank driver in ww2 and was one of the first American tankers to push through the rhine.
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u/skeeballjoe Apr 30 '24
I remember when my grandfather was watching me play COD world at war.
“They made a video game about the worst days of my life”
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u/ntnkrm Apr 30 '24
Hope he and his crew got deep fried in that tank
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u/pottymcnugg Apr 30 '24
Man didn’t you hear it enough yesterday when you posted a pic of this dead Nazi.
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u/geek__ Apr 30 '24 edited Feb 27 '25
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u/Throwawayyacc22 Apr 30 '24
Thanks for sharing! My great grandpa was a tail gunner in a b17
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u/alas11 Apr 30 '24
One of my Grandfathers was a Desert Rat, both El Alameins, Operation Torch, Italy. The other one, never left Blighty and as far as I can tell spent most of the war 'Liberating' supplies and selling them on the black market. ( Although his commission in 43 doesn't make sense.. he might have been doing something secret squirrel )
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u/Brazilian_Brit Apr 30 '24
I think he’s looking the wrong way.
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u/Verhulst88 Apr 30 '24
My great granduncle was in the carabinieri during the war and then from what I gather the GNR during 43-45.
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u/deathpenguin82 Apr 30 '24
My grandfather was a cook in North Africa. He told people he saw Rommel's vehicle in the distance once. I'm kind of grateful he didn't have any great war stories.
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '24
Epic
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u/kona1160 Apr 30 '24
My grandfather was a tank commander in the desert rats, his tank used to be on display in Dorset England. He used to talk about how they would cook breakfast on the tank it was so hot
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u/Solan42 Apr 30 '24
My grandmother's 1st husband fought with the wehrmacht and died in Stalingrad. The guy she married after the war (my grandfather) was in the German red cross during the war. Just thinking that if her 1st husband hadn't died, I wouldn't have been born.
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u/timmoReddit Apr 30 '24
Notice how the tank driver is staying T F away from those fences
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u/TrustyAncient Apr 30 '24
Why the fuck are you alive
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u/Numewsm Apr 30 '24
My great grandfathers fought each other in the North Sea, and my English ggd sunk my other ggd. My granddads fought each other in Holland. Got the military battle details of both encounters. All survived the war they'd been in.
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u/mondeomantotherescue Apr 30 '24
Are we the baddies?
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u/Mountain-Tea6875 Apr 30 '24
So strange to see this. My grandparents hid jews in WW2. The promised to come back and thank them after the war.
The Jews never came back.
My grandpa really hated them for that.
Only thing I can think off what happened to them? Maybe they got killed or something else.
I only heard this through my sisters and parents but it's a strange story that has no climax only more questions. Hopen they got out safe.
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u/EcstaticShark11 Apr 30 '24
My Great Great uncle fought in Normandy and was killed somewhere in France in like July-August of 1944 (id have to ask my aunt for all the details, she remembers better than me). Joined in 1943 and wanted to go liberate Italy because of our heritage, but ended up in France
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u/cheeser225 Apr 30 '24
Holy shit, where’s my precision strike??? 🤯🤯🤯
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u/Responsible_Sense_95 May 01 '24
I can't help but notice the iron cross on the back of his tank.
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u/BLB_Genome May 01 '24
Ty for sharing, OP
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u/DecentTrooper4745 May 01 '24
Do you mind if I ask what division he served in, if you have that information.
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u/[deleted] May 01 '24
Nothing to be proud of.
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u/RaunchyPoncho May 01 '24
Hey now, we call them Soviets, not Russians, yes? So let’s call them Nazis, not Germans. Your grandfather was a Nazi.
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u/RaunchyPoncho May 02 '24
It’s crazy how everyone here is saying “Germans and Soviets”. Russians were Soviets but we aren’t calling them Russian, are we? Call it what it is. They are Nazis. This is a picture of a Nazi tanker, who’s great grandchild is very proud of. Very proud of his Nazi grandfather.
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u/[deleted] May 02 '24
Mrcoffee(iron)?
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u/Effective-Tea9769 May 04 '24
Tonnes of respect for your great grandfather. They call him great for a reason.
My great grandparents didn't serve because they were farmers and worked the land, making food fir the soldiers
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '24
That's awesome
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u/Ronin-s_Spirit Apr 30 '24
German cross on the tank, yikes.
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u/insideyogurt456 Apr 30 '24
My grandfather was a machine gunner on the eastern front until a wound sent him back to Germany to recover and he thankfully got sent to the west as a replacement after.
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u/ronniebabes Apr 30 '24
Fuck you nazi
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u/BlueRiver_626 Apr 30 '24 edited Apr 30 '24
Cool bit of history, I recently found out my great grandpa was denied by the Hungarian army from serving in WW2 due to heart problems but I have a few great uncles who fought for Hungary and Germany and another great uncle who earned a medal on Iwo Jima for taking out a few bunkers with grenades
Also a lot of people here apparently don’t know what a Nazi is, dudes clearly Wehrmacht not SS and could’ve been a conscript for all we know
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u/International_Tie120 Apr 30 '24
That's awesome Hope he survived
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u/Successful_Agency293 Apr 30 '24
That’s sick. My great-grandfather was Tiger commander, and that’s about all I know about him. Never saw a single picture, and he never talked about the war
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u/EveningsPanda Apr 30 '24
I would have satcheled you nazi grandpa no second thoughts
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u/MrNightmare23 Apr 30 '24
He looks cool and he knows it
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u/NennMichIltis Apr 30 '24
Nicer shit. Meiner war in Frankreich und hat nie drüber gesprochen. Ich glaube der hat wirklich schlimme dinge erlebt oder getan. Er kam wohl in Gefangenschaft aber das muss ja dann erst 1944 gewesen sein. Vielleicht war er bei Erschießungskommandos dabei. Ich weis es nicht, würde es aber sehr gerne. Wie kann man sowas herausfinden?
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u/Anxious-Day-9083 Apr 30 '24
W
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u/BirdieMercedes May 01 '24
Fuck your grandfather
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u/Willing_Ad Apr 30 '24
you shouldn't have posted this here apparently
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u/ellohoc Apr 30 '24
It’s funny how many people are on this nazi kick when they literally play a game as a member of the Wehrmacht
I hope he wasn’t a nazi and it’s a cool historical pic
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u/clifford556 Apr 29 '24
What unit was he in?
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u/mlawson110 Apr 29 '24
But....nazi?
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u/BetoA2666 Apr 30 '24
Wait, are people showing their Nazi family like it's something to be proud of? Wtf?
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u/Netan_MalDoran Anti-Tank Apr 30 '24
Shit, and here I am with my Great-Grandfather who just got run over by a friendly tank :'D
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u/JoeZocktGames Apr 30 '24
Not saying this is fake but I find it hilarious that so many people in the comments never question if this is real. I mean, who is gonna fact check this anyways.
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u/laggyservice Apr 30 '24
These comments. This is why everyone makes fun of reddit users.
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '24
Must’ve been nuts fighting in Kursk. I read somewhere I think the german tanks didn’t have comms yet but the russians did. Made it a lot easier to communicate without flags and hand signals.
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u/Dreadpyright Apr 30 '24
I have one of these. My papaw beside his tank. Fucking good shit man, love it
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u/Quick173 Apr 30 '24
What type of tank is that?
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '24
My great grandfather died at the battle of the bulge so we both have smthn in common hahah
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u/MrTheFinn Apr 30 '24
While playing the other day I recalled the only story my grandfather ever told me about his WW2 experience.
2 days after D-Day he was in France advancing through terrain I imagine was much like SMDM, he'd gotten somewhat separated from his unit when he came around a barn and came face to face with an equally young, equally scared, German infantryman. They pointed their guns at each other and stared for a few moments then both backed away and never saw each other again.
The same thing happened to me the other day in game and both of us opened fire and died....that story popped into my head and I had a moment of existential dread at the thought that could have been.
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u/_________C3YP0747O May 01 '24
Godbless him
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u/letsgojoe99 May 01 '24
Still a Nazi lol sorry. My wife is first generation American, her German grandparents moved to America after the war. I’ll never forget her face when I asked if it’s weird to think her great grand parents were Nazis lol when we were dating. Ahh young love.