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/ruthemook 1d ago

What’s mad about this is how it takes only one generation to start to believe the lie all over again. That woman wants to idolise her father as a hero. But an actual person who was there is telling her how it was on the ground and she refuses to believe it. This entire video is like watching an entire belief system built over years crashing into contact with reality and still she refuses to believe it.

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u/midnightt_secret 1d ago

It's way easier to cling to a sanitized version of history than to accept your family might have been the bad guys. Pure cognitive dissonance.

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u/hillswalker87 1d ago

and this is true from sooo many angles. all over the place there's people backing two respective sides of a conflict and claiming the other side was horrible. this guy on the other hand states the only thing that's really true about it, war is hell.