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

OK, so my grandad (UK) worked in an ordinance factory in Ireland during WW2. He died in 1989 and when we cleared his office desk, we found an envelope with 2 postcards of Hitler and an unworn swastika arm band. No one is sure wtf it's all about. The logical answer is that he worked for a number of German electronics firms before and after WW2 and the postcards and arm band were no different in 1937 to a MAGA hat and postcard of Trump is today... But a part of me says there's more to the story but I have no living relatives who can shed any further light on it. And there's nothing about him online as far as I can find. My other grandad was a major in the army and a POW in Burma, we found loads about him online and my dad learnt loads from him before died.

TLDR found a 1937 Swastika armband in my British grandads drawer when he died, no idea why he had it.

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