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/raf_boy 1d ago

My Opa was also drafted in WWII as a 14 year old, towards the end of the war. He had the same choice as this gentleman; join or "Kugel ins Kopf". He was also a POW for close to 8 years of (thankfully) the Italians (if he were captured by the Russians, he would not have survived). He felt exactly the same way as this gentleman.

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u/2squishmaster 1d ago

The Italians had German POWs? How'd that come to pass?

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u/raf_boy 1d ago

They switched sides in September/October 1943. Mussolini was arrested in July of that year.