So I spent my first 30 years questioning my father's heritage.
I knew he had German blood and raised by Austrians.
He would always avoid any questions about his family.
He would never teach me German and if I asked him to teach me he would get mad. When we were taught about WWII in class I was infatuated with war.
He took offense and even scolded me infront of my teacher when we had a "meeting" because I drew a swastika on my homework.
I was in grade 8 so I was 12.
Well later on we went to a family reunion with his "parents" and I learned he was adopted at 2 years old and immigrated to Canada at 16. He was born in 1944.
He once told me he was constantly made fun of "over there" because he didn't have parents and I read that Nazi babies were picked on after the war.
Not just picked on but beaten and abused.
Apparently Germans were ashamed of the war.
Their was tension with him and his adoptive family. Like he didn't belong.
So of course I was interested and I asked around and guess what.
His real parents are unknown but if you google his name you get an SS soldier who was part of the "Nazi baby" program (Lebensborn) and the pic looks just like him and me.
I've read and heard that "Nazi babies" would take the name of the impregnating soldier.
So is it possible?
If you google my father's name up comes a soldier from the SS who was part of the Nazi baby program.
He looks like my father.
He looks exactly like me.
I mean exactly like me but I'm bigger which is probably due to our ease of food intake as opposed to back then.
Is their any way to confirm it?
I don't think the Nazi baby program had accurate records as I'm sure it was just an extreme method to try and generate soldiers in a lost war.
Makes me think sometimes 🤔
@patzering saidThat's what happens when they attack everyone like fools
Usually due to the fact that all the other countries have to join together just to be the Germans. 😉
https://www.amazon.com/WHY-GERMANS-LOSE-WAR-Superiority/dp/1853673838
@patzering saidYou might want to take that lesson to heart before you start punching liberals in the streets.
Oh they definitely bite off more than they can chew. I'll agree to that.
@patzering saidIt’s your funeral. *shrug*
Nope.
Some things are worth the consequences.
https://warisboring.com/anarchists-are-killing-neo-nazis-in-greece/
@athousandyoung saidThere's the Franco-Prussian War.
For such an amazingly strong and productive people, Germans are awfully bad at winning. They always lose...
@deepthought saidYeah, they were more effective before unification. There's also Charlemagne, Dark Ages conquest of various Roman provinces*, Teutoberg Forest etc.
There's the Franco-Prussian War.
*Including England
But after unification...we're always told we need to study the "superior" German way of war, even though they're 0-2, as one American military man**put it.
**I think it was Dr. Robert Citino, author of "The German Way of War" and lecturer who can be listened to on youtube, but I can't find the exact quote.
@athousandyoung saidWell, there's a few more than just the World Wars, there's a more complete list here:
Yeah, they were more effective before unification. There's also Charlemagne, Dark Ages conquest of various Roman provinces*, Teutoberg Forest etc.
*Including England
But after unification...we're always told we need to study the "superior" German way of war, even though they're 0-2, as one American military man put it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Germany
@patzering said
Oh they definitely bite off more than they can chew. I'll agree to that.
Dr Citino at about 32:55 in the above lecture:
...being outnumbered, and short of everything, and deciding to launch three grand offensives at the same time seems to be a bit of overkill. But in fact, what it was doing in 1942, launching those three grand offensives, was nothing particularly new! In fact, it was the German way of war! To fight coalitions of enemies who outnumbered you and beat them by some dramatic or aggressive maneuver early on in the fighting! Now admittedly, and puzzlingly, it had failed in 1941...