1995 Intervista spontanea per strada a un veterano austriaco della Seconda Guerra Mondiale
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di BkkGrl
1995 Intervista spontanea per strada a un veterano austriaco della Seconda Guerra Mondiale
https://v.redd.it/srzsgfi7pt2g1
di BkkGrl
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Source is 1995 episode “Am WĂĽrstelstand”, roughly at 9:30 minute, visible using a VPN.
https://on.orf.at/video/14192366/alltagsgeschichte-am-wuerstelstand
Bravo.
as someone who only learned classroom german, his pronounciation and use of words is really refreshing and interesting!
The woman next to him is in denial and you can clearly see that. Austrians weren’t subjected to the collective guilt doctrine.
Thank you for showing me one of the most beautiful uses of our language 🙂
The ignorance of that lady is astounding.
Bravo to the man speaking out
“They didn’t die for their fatherland, they died miserably in the dirt.”
That’s a hell of a quote.
If only this view was more prevalent in Russia today.
Okay now lets see what former soviet soldiers have to say.
“The greatest trick the Austrians ever pulled was to convince the world that Hitler was German and Beethoven was Austrian.”
i unterstand what the man is trying to say perfectly but i have no idea what the women is trying to say?
Soviets wanted to punish Austria by the way. The Western Allies wanted to treat it as an occupied country. Soviets were eventually persuaded when they were promised a strongly neutral Austria.
That’s why to this day, Austria has not joined NATO. And unfortunately it is also why Austria has some shady relations with Putin’s regime. In my opinion, that deal worked more in favor of Russia.
All honor to this gentleman. Germany and Austria committed terrible crimes and started two world wars. Young people need to be aware of this.
She MAGA
Bless that man!
Imagine, you have those two sides as your grandparents.
One side telling you to wary the Jews and how terrible they will be, once they are back in power.
They had friends over with the craziest cold eyes you would ever see. The wifes never spoke about the war, other than their husbands spent extra years as POWs, only because they spoke Russian so well.
And the other, teaching you, that everybody is equal, war is fucking cruel for soldiers, never resolves anything. And telling how they travelled through Europe, were captured by Americans and worked as POWs in Utah and Mississippi.
On one side, I would have liked to meet my SS-officer gramps to hear his side of the story on how he would justify everything and also on “he never really was with the SS in the first place”.
But meeting his survivor-friends, makes me re-think it. They were bat shit crazy deluxe.
Kudos to the man!