What Was Life Like for German Soldiers in Germany After WW2?

[westwall]

Sorry, you demented fucking Nazi.

Yes, you should be sorry. You fascists are sick in the head.

 

[okfine]

Yes, you should be sorry. You fascists are sick in the head.

I notice that you haven't denied being a Nazi.

 

[SweetSue92]

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A lost war is a heavy burden. Some German soldiers spent up to 10 years as POWs in Siberia. Many died in the camps, and some died after returning home when they ate their first big meal for years. Others discovered their wives had remarried and committed suicide. Those who returned to normal life were not acknowledged for what they had done, but they weren't despised either.

After coming back from war, the former soldiers worked extremely hard and disciplined. This might have been a coping strategy to deal with what they experienced during the war. Germany soon prospered. The "omertà," which means the principle of remaining silent about Nazism , was common sense until the late 60s. The early years of the Federal Republic were characterized by strict conservatism. Everyone felt they had done something wrong. Nobody was interested in talking about it, knowing that some brutal guys would get away with it.

When veterans met, they would discuss how they might have won WWII: "If I'd been in charge at the Ostfront, I'd have taken all Panzers together at one point and hit the 'Ivan' in the north where he least expected ..."

Besides, their ideas were strikingly similar: Push harder, focus more, ignore casualties, and produce more "Wunderwaffen." Some regarded Hitler as a visionary man who lost WWII because "too many hounds soon catch the hare." Most of the veterans I talked to were farmers. They made a little extra money cutting wood in the winter. While they sat by the fireplace to warm up, they'd sing Russian songs. Stockholm syndrome came alive.

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The German Stages of Grief are not studied enough.

At my tiny high school in the mid-80s we had an exchange student from Germany, and I became good friends with her. Up and down the hallway, guys would "Heil Hitler" her. I was infuriated on her account. She had nothing to do with that, nor her parents, even. But she would tell me over and over, it's okay. It's okay. Let it go.

I didn't understand then but I do now--this was the German Era of Acceptance.

But now Germans have moved "beyond" that to insufferable. They lambast Americans because they believe their Nazi era has made them superhuman (oh, the irony) and The Best At Looking Out For Fascists (again, the irony). Like idiots they think hating Trump is like looking out for Hitler, and they blast their nastiness all over the WWW for everyone to read.

I loathe this stage of grief. It's reprehensible.

 

[Deadstick]

German POW's incarcerated in the U.S. had it better than their brothers captured by the Russians. Apparently they were aware of it and that's why Ike ordered American forces to stand down while the Russian hoards took Berlin.

Russian hordes? that is the language of a Nazi, is it any wonder the German POWs had it rougher in the Soviet Union after what they had inflicted on the Country, the USA was not Nazi occupied, in the East the Germans waged a war of annihilation i wouldn't have shed a tear for any POW who never saw Germany again.

 

[Deadstick]

Ike had WAllied forces allow the Soviets to take Berlin because it was deep in the territory assigned to the Soviets. Why spend WAllied blood for something that had to be given away. Plus, Stalin demanded to be allowed to take Berlin.

Yes and the Soviets took over a hundred thousand casualties doing it.

 

[Deadstick]

One thing that passes many people by is after WW2 West Germany employed many former Nazis including former Hitler Judges SS and Gestapo officials and the Gehlen network Nazi military intelligence and i believe in the fifties the West Germans even jailed some members of the Communist party, then they had Berufsverbote political repression where some people on the left were sacked from employment and many others denied employment because of their politics, so did anything really change in that Country or did the Nazi mentality supported by the West just go out of sight ?

 

[westwall]

I notice that you haven't denied being a Nazi.

I notice you are stupid. Anybody with a brain knows the Nazis are you clods. I am a firm supporter of free speech.

Even for Nazis, like you.

That makes me the anti nazi.

Dumbass.

 

[whitehall]

Ike had WAllied forces allow the Soviets to take Berlin because it was deep in the territory assigned to the Soviets. Why spend WAllied blood for something that had to be given away. Plus, Stalin demanded to be allowed to take Berlin.

There was no German territory assigned to the Soviets prior to the end of the War. Churchill blamed FDR for creating the "Iron Curtain".

 

[AZrailwhale]

There was no German territory assigned to the Soviets prior to the end of the War. Churchill blamed FDR for creating the "Iron Curtain".

Wrong, at Yalta: ..."All three leaders ratified the agreement of the European Advisory Commission setting the boundaries of postwar occupation zones for Germany with three zones of occupation, one for each of the three principal Allies."...
Yalta was held between four and eleven February 1945. The war was still being fought.

 

[Zebra]

google for yRheinwiesenlager


without the y …. of course

 

[Zebra]

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A lost war is a heavy burden. Some German soldiers spent up to 10 years as POWs in Siberia. Many died in the camps, and some died after returning home when they ate their first big meal for years. Others discovered their wives had remarried and committed suicide. Those who returned to normal life were not acknowledged for what they had done, but they weren't despised either.

After coming back from war, the former soldiers worked extremely hard and disciplined. This might have been a coping strategy to deal with what they experienced during the war. Germany soon prospered. The "omertà," which means the principle of remaining silent about Nazism , was common sense until the late 60s. The early years of the Federal Republic were characterized by strict conservatism. Everyone felt they had done something wrong. Nobody was interested in talking about it, knowing that some brutal guys would get away with it.

When veterans met, they would discuss how they might have won WWII: "If I'd been in charge at the Ostfront, I'd have taken all Panzers together at one point and hit the 'Ivan' in the north where he least expected ..."

Besides, their ideas were strikingly similar: Push harder, focus more, ignore casualties, and produce more "Wunderwaffen." Some regarded Hitler as a visionary man who lost WWII because "too many hounds soon catch the hare." Most of the veterans I talked to were farmers. They made a little extra money cutting wood in the winter. While they sat by the fireplace to warm up, they'd sing Russian songs. Stockholm syndrome came alive.

What Was Life Like for German Soldiers in Germany After WW2? | Preshaas

German soldiers surrender ww2A lost war is a heavy burden. Some German soldie...

tourzy.exblog.jp

Thank you again very much for your fairness!

Did you also know about the Rheinwiesenlager?

 

[Zebra]

Even many Germans have never heard of those horrible Rheinwiesenlager