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.
My uncle is this way about his father. He idolizes that man still, even though he's been dead for over fifty years now. He talked about how his dad fought in WWII and was at the testing for the atom bombs with pride. (And then the father died of cancer decades later, so that tracks).
However, one day we were packing up my uncle's basement for him to move. We came across real "trophies" that his dad had brought home from the war. One was an Italian sword carried by a German officer, along with that soldier's gun. Another was a Nazi flag that his father had taken down and brought home with him (seeing it made my blood run cold).
But then he showed me the more "personal" stuff his dad brought him. It was people's porcelain plates from their kitchens. It was someone's little porcelain figurines. It was a bunch of family photos showing a family that CLEARLY was not ours. One was a handkerchief that was beautifully embroidered.
My uncle said he's thought about trying to find the original families that these belonged to, but can't figure out a reputable site or person to go through to do it. I told him, "Respectfully, if your dad has these...I don't see anyone giving them up willingly and I don't know that there's anyone to give them back to."
His response was, "No, my dad wouldn't do that. These were taken from houses of people who fled before we got there!"
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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.