my dad was hitler youth
by Knip
Posted to Utterances on 2003-10-27 20:18:00
Parent message is 535667
he said it was like the boy scouts…all the cool kids did it…hell…ALL the kids did it
then when the nazis came and took their dresden estate away to use as an advance base, with dad’s dad in a prison camp on the russian front, dad led his mother, two brothers, and sister across southern germany on foot to bavaria and safety…at the age of 15
he emigrated to canada…married a canadian…had four kids…never sent his kids to school in europe like his other immigrant friends because he wanted to be a canadian and not a german…he despised hitler, hitler youth, and war…
but he would like D.A.R.E. …and he still makes anit-jew jokes…all the while claiming (incorrectly) to not be racist…
some habits are really, really hard to break…
oh yeah…dad’s dad wrote and had published a book about his prison camp time…and the seven times he escaped…i’m trying to get dad to translate it…