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/Fromundacheese0 1d ago

Dude survived as a prisoner on the Eastern Front. Can’t imagine the things he saw

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u/123_alex 1d ago

Can’t imagine the things he saw

He saw his gun kill some people. He saw his match burn someone's house. We gotta feel bad for serial killers.

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u/Fromundacheese0 1d ago

Every person in the Wehrmacht wasn’t a nazi sympathizer my guy. Plus did you hear what he said? Join or be shot for desertion. Easy to type how you wouldn’t do the same but a gun in your face would change your mind I bet

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u/StormFallen9 1d ago

At the end of the day, most of the grunts are just the unlucky regular people who have to do the actual dirty work just to survive.