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Originally Posted by seamonkey  Last month I stayed just east of paris with 3 old aunties of my late french husband, they told me how the Germans came and put them out of their farmhouse. Dad was fighting in the war mum was home with 8 children one of them a baby. They went to live in the nearby forest digging a deep trench and living in the trench for 2 months. The officer in charge told the mum that after the war he would be back and required the house for his family to have holidays in. I slept in the room that the officer had claimed for himself. These aunties allowed me to video them telling the story, soon as I have edited it I will subtitle it and put it on the internet for anyone who wants to to watch. |
I think this is an example of the arrogance that abounded some individuals when they thought they were on top.These stories are too common at a time when the Germans thought they were staying in the territory they had overrun and consequently left permanent cemeteries for their dead.After the war their dead was relocated in concentrated cemeteries or as those from the Channel Islands and the Western French Departments in the ossuary at Huisnes sur Mer in Eastern Brittany.
It has to be said that these individuals had the truth to be faced after February 1943 when the rational minded military realised the war was lost.Some were the real believers who were optimistic until the end and thought of final victory as late as the new year of 1945.
It would be interesting to know if the individual survived the war.