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Originally Posted by K-61
That is a lovely little piece of history you have there.
I have a friend who has a child's food bowl from the Nazi era. When the child ate their food there was a picture of a teddy bear imprinted on the bottom. I guess as an incentive to eat. Underneath the base there is a logo with manufacturer information and Nazi markings.
He calls it "Hitler's breakfast bowl."
My son-in-law's grandfather was a Heer soldier during WW2. He passed years ago but his widow is still alive. She once offered me his "soldat buch" if I am spelling it correctly, basically his record book. As keen as I was to have it I told her that it more properly belongs to one of her adult children who have a more direct connection to Opa. It seemed the decent thing to do. She also offered me a soldier's dictionary book which was distributed to the soldiers, and I suppose also to the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine, before or around the time of Barbarossa perhaps, containing German words and phrases and their Russian versions. Again, for the same reason I declined.
But if I ever get the offer again I suspect my resolve shall weaken.
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That's a great story, it is important to keep the history alive and never forget it. That way we learn from our mistakes (hopefully) and it's the family history that makes us who we are...
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A quote from Donitz; “The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.” “For the lessons one fails to learn during peacetime, one pays a high price in war.”