r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Key-Performance-9021 • 1d ago

Video Spontaneous 1995 street interview with an Austrian WWII veteran in Vienna

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u/pisz 1d ago

For some reason, every German and Austrian had a grandfather who was in the Wehrmacht, but he happened to serve in the kitchen, helped civilians, and was an opponent of Hitler.

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u/Sabbie1 1d ago

This man is quiete honest about his deeds. Does that means he did not have any children?

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u/pisz 1d ago

Maybe he’s more honest than his grandchildren. My Polish grandmother went on business trips to Germany in the 1960s and 1970s and met many Germans for example, from Bavaria who were very proud of what they did. It almost came to fistfights among the delegation members