[Serious] What stories about WW2 did your grandparents tell you and/or what did you find out about their lives during that period?

My Oma was young and lived in Germany (Black Forest) at the time, the family wasn’t technically part of the party, I have a good number of stories but I’ll just share a funny one. There are quite a lot of bad ones anyway

Children HAD to attend Hitler Youth sessions (it was like boy or Girl Scouts) and typically they played a sport or sang or did crafts, according to her. Though the person running it had a deep hatred of the USA and would often mockingly say things like “America is so backwards that they eat off of paper plates!” And to the children, that gave them the idea that everyone ate off of sheets of writing paper and not disposable plateware. She told me this, while eating off of a paper plate, and sighed when she said “oh if only we had known how much better paper plates were!” (Implying simple cleanup, no washing)

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