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Your opa stories? (self.ShitWehraboosSay)

NikolajuHitler shouldn't have listened to OSS/MI6 が 投稿

We like to make fun of people making up opa stories and/or using opa stories to push a political agenda. So do you guys have any interesting stories we can share without doing this?

I'm particularly interested in Allied grandpa stories because I only know German ones. Of course I'd also like to hear German stories, especially because I know you guys won't use it for Wehrmacht apologism.

My Geman opa had no stories to tell because he was damn lucky. He joined the navy for an officer career and when the war ended he was still at the naval academy. He was pretty much a Nazi for today's standard and his views didn't actually change much after the war.

I do know an old man though, a long-time friend of my mother. He was Sudeten German and got drafted to fight on the Eastern Front when he was 17. He has a lot of interesting stories to tell. E.g. he'd tell about his experiences operating an MG and how terribly easy it is to aim an MG at groups of soldiers and gun them down. Many soldiers in WWII never killed an enemy combattant so being in a position to kill them in droves left an unreal impression in him.

My other opa was Russian, got drafted to fight against the Germans and went MIA never to return.

So do you have something to share? Maybe some Americans grandpas?

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[–]TankArchivesBolshevist Jew Conspiracy Liason 10ポイント11ポイント  (5子コメント)

Mein opa led the battalion that stormed the Reichstag

"At 14:20 on April 30th, 1945, 1st Battalion 380th Rifle Regiment, 171st Rifle Division under the command of Captain Samsonov was the first to burst into the building and raise the Red Banner of Victory on its roof. The garrison of the Reichstag was partially killed and partially surrendered."

[–]Sitchu [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Now thats what I call a victor

[–]NikolajuHitler shouldn't have listened to OSS/MI6[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Now that's impressive.

Did your opa's name happen to be Konstantin?

[–]ElagabalusRexMetaxas was the real monster [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

How many wrist watches did he nationalize?

[–]SlavophilesAnonymousThe Stakhanov of shitposters 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

Mein opa's vater was a colonel in the USAAF during WWII. During WWI, he was a Lieutenant in the Marine Corps. Mein opa was a submariner, although I don't know what his position or boat was.

[–]TheGuineaPig21 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Mijn opa lived in Nord Holland and had to go into hiding during the war because he was old enough to be deported to Germany for manual labour. He was captured once by a patrol, but managed to escape into surrounding fields. He met mijne oma during that time (she was from Haarlem, living with other family away from the city), and they married after the war. After a brief tour in Indonesia they immigrated to Canada.

[–]BrotherToasterEven the Polish managed to defeat Russia 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

My Oma was a prisoner of the Japanese in the Dutch East-Indies internment camps.

Don't know about my Opas though, one divorced before I was even born and the other isn't a particularly nice bloke from a not particularly nice place (and also dead).

[–]JeremyFredericWilsonGerman calligraphy > Cyrillic hordes of text [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Mein Opa was a child during the war and looted for food and coal as the front moved through his hometown in Hungary. People sent their children out to loot because the Soviets wouldn't punish them if caught, unlike adults.

A friend's Opa served in the army and witnessed the Germans killing wounded Soviets with bayonets at some point during the Nagykanizsa-Körmend offensive.

[–]ADF01FALKENRoasting s'mores over a warm Dresden [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Mein Großpapa served on a USN destroyer in the South Pacific against the Japanese, as an AA gunner if I recall correctly.

[–]vidkunquislingIIHas never been penetrated from the front [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Mein opa was a pharmacist in a US Navy medical camp on Guam, and later in Korea.

Mein Großonkel was on the USS Ward at Pearl Harbor, when it fired the first American shots of the Pacific War a few hours before the battle. He was on the ship until 1944, when the Ward sank on December 7th.

[–]HerodoTotesScheißeStaffel [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Main opa's story was briefly mentioned here by me a while back. I don't know everything (tbh I'm afraid to look into it any further), but I know he was known as "someone who could get things done" on the East Front and was a part of "anti-partisan" activities. He outlived the Reich and was supposedly worked rebuilding France, iirc. I don't know if he was employed to do this or if he was a POW who got put to work, but I always got the impression it was the latter. Never paid for any of the things he did. His wife is still alive. She apparently was prone to keeping the artifacts of that time locked away in boxes out of sight; I don't know if that's due to legit shame or the understanding that it could lead to messy questions. Anyway, my Wehrb dad and stepmother apparently convinced her to take some of the old pictures and stuff out and share them. My stepmother: "Well, you know, he was just fighting for his country like any soldier." smh. I've had the usual arguments with my dad a few times, but there's no convincing him it's something we should be ashamed of...

[–]Nekron227 [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

Slovako-Polish Great-opa, father of mother of my father http://imgur.com/a/TJw6s Imrich Kucharyk/Kucharzyk/Kucharik Borned 23.4. 1921, lived in southern Slovakia, so was Hungarian citizen during the war Served in Hungarian Army as infantrymen (rifleman) with rank sergeant from October 1942 to November 1943 when he defected to the Red army, from November served in Red army as submachinegunner to January 1944, from January 1944 to June 1945 served in 3rd Czechoslovak independent brigade as (i was realy confused when i have seen this for the first time, it looked like generálplukovník, which would be Colonel general, but now i think it is ´´Gardový samopalník´´, that guard looks like gaw, which doesnt mean anything) guard submachinegunner. In 3rd ČS brigade fought in battle of: Dukla, Liptovský Mikuláš, Ostrava, in Soviet (Red) army fought in battles of Voronezh and Kcharkov. 3 times lightly wounded by shrapnels: on the leg, neck and in the face.

Photos: 1. My opa in the middle as child, we identified 2 other persons on the photo. 2 and 3. from the early post-war to 70/80s .

My grandma told me that he never wanted to talk about it and only thing he told her is that war for him ended in mountains of Jeseníky.

[–]Nekron227 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Btw that list confirmed that he realy served there, but he is not evidated in any military archive, which is realy sad because i cant find more info.

[–]welcometothezone [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

One of mein Opas from what i've heard fought in the September Campaign being around 19 years old, and after the surrender he was captured by the Soviets while trying to escape south. They took him into a labour camp for a few weeks or months, and he was set free. Not sure what happened between that time, but around 1943-1944 he joined the Home Army operating in the Vilnius region fighting Germans and Lithuanians.

After the war he spent 4 years fighting against the Red Army and Polish People's Army, along with the NKVD and other internal affairs services like the Ministry of Public Security in the Białystok Region. He was captured yet again, and at first sentenced to the death penalty, but it was changed to 10 years of prison instead. He settled in Białystok and met my Oma there. He died i believe in 2003, and only a few years after i've learned about his history sadly.

[–]ShittyAdmiral1 Tiger = 10 Leman Russes [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

My opa's only notable achievement during German occupation of Poland was stealing a German soldier's bicycle, crashing it during the ride and getting away with that. Sorta. His deed wasn't discovered by Germans, but my greatopa birched him thoroughly for putting the family at risk.

If greatuncles count, then, one from father's side was a prisoner in Auschwitz's concentration camp since 1939 for being an instructor for Polish boy scouts in the pre-war era, and the one from mother's side was a Jewish Red Army officer who spent 1939-1941 in a gulag and released back to service when Operation Barbarossa started.

[–]-RedStar- [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

American Opa drove a supply truck for the Americans in Europe and was very hush hush about the war until his deathbed, in which he told my grandpa about how he witnessed a liberation of a concentration and it pretty much shook him to the core.

Soviet opa (a cousin of ours) was a tank operator or something, he made it from start to finish along with a few of his brothers.

Nazi fuckwad family member (dude was like was part of the 2nd or 3rd waffen SS assholes) who met his end at Prokhorovka. He was the only son of our closest german family and he died childless. Good riddance imo.