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Do you have a family member that did serve in the Nazi army?

Do/did you have a family member who served in the Nazi army?

  • Yes (includes SS, and other official Nazi militias)

    Votes: 4 80.0%
  • Other (he served Hitlers regime in another way)

    Votes: 1 20.0%

  • Total voters
    5

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Do you have a family member that did serve in the Nazi army?

Just an interesting thought. Id like to see how many users on here had a family member who served in the Nazi army. Poll voters are anonymous if you feel uncomfortable to share this information.

Oh and by the way, join my "DebatePolitics no place for Nazi's" group:

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No "No" option: Yes, so if you didnt have a family member who served in the Nazi army, dont vote, simple as :lol:
 
I can see this thread going south...
 
I can see this thread going south...

I can't see it getting many responses, both because I don't think that statistically there would be many members on the board with relatives who served the Nazi regime, and if there aren't, I can't see many of them wanting to dscuss it.
 
No, I have two uncles who served in the U.S. Army and one who fought on Utah Beach on DDay. Do you have anyone in your family who fought for zee Germans?
 
Do you have a family member that did serve in the Nazi army?

Just an interesting thought. Id like to see how many users on here had a family member who served in the Nazi army. Poll voters are anonymous if you feel uncomfortable to share this information.

Oh and by the way, join my "DebatePolitics no place for Nazi's" group:

Debate Politics Forums - DebatePolitics No Place for Nazi's

No "No" option: Yes, so if you didnt have a family member who served in the Nazi army, dont vote, simple as :lol:

And because you have no "no" option, no one is voting in your poll. Good job.
 
Probably, but they would have been a distant cousin. My family left Germany more than half a century before the Nazis took power.
 
Not that I know of.

My family left europe long before the Nazi party came to power in Germany, so any relations would be distant.

However, I know that I had an uncle who served with the US army in the pacific, fighting the Japanese. Iwo Jima was one place he mentioned, if I recall correctly. He died several months ago.

Don’t know much about the rest of my relations.

I have a question for the OP, however.

What prompted your thought which led to this poll?
 
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And because you have no "no" option, no one is voting in your poll. Good job.

Thats because i don't care about the no's, im interested in the yes's only. Unsubscribe, move on. :2wave:
 
Not that I know of.

My family left europe long before the Nazi party came to power in Germany, so any relations would be distant.

However, I know that I had an uncle who served with the US army in the pacific, fighting the Japanese. Iwo Jima was one place he mentioned, if I recall correctly. He died several months ago.

Don’t know much about the rest of my relations.

I have a question for the OP, however.

What prompted your thought which led to this poll?

Just interested really. Would be nice to know someone who had a Nazi in there family at some stage; because it would be nice to know someone who had a second hand account from someone who was in the army. You don't hear many stories from the opposition side of the war. So if you are one of those who had a grandfather or uncle who served and told you stories, please do share them here. :)
 
What is the point? Germany had a draft going on at the time and pretty much every male ended up serving in the army. My great grandmother was a Jew living in Holland who managed to survive and probably also has some distant relatives who served with the Wehrmacht.
 
Is the point of the poll really curiosity of first or second hand accounts of the other side or is this some sort of attempt to bash people for the actions of their relatives?
 
And because you have no "no" option, no one is voting in your poll. Good job.

Obviously, if you didn't have a relative that served in the German Army, you wouldn't vote and the answer is automatically, uh, "no".

I have a cousin that served in the French Foreign Legion. Does that count?
 
Is the point of the poll really curiosity of first or second hand accounts of the other side or is this some sort of attempt to bash people for the actions of their relatives?

I even made a point of making the poll anonymous voting. Seriously, why do some people on this forum assume the worst of others? Why should anybody be ashamed if they did have a relative in the army; its not them who signed up for goodness sakes. :doh
 
Well my Great Grand Pa got captured in combat and was forced to work for the Germans, while my Granddad was held in a concentration camp where his job involved being a human mine field clearer.
 
there was war with Finland and Germany.this i s why i dont know how Finland was ally t o Germany when there have the war.my morfar h e say this i s not true. the vinterkriget kill many soldiers. so,how is Finland ally t o Germany? this i s difficult to understand.
 
I don't even have a family member who served in WWII.
My grandfather was career air force, and eventually rose to the rank of colonel, and died in an accidental plane crash in Vietnam. I think he might've been in Korea, too.
But he missed WWII; he was still in college at the time.
It's a shame, because I really would've liked to have had a relative in that conflict.
I would've been proud of that.

edit: oxymoron, I like your signature picture thing.
I have a tattoo of that on my left shoulder: the pyramid with the eye on top, and the "Novus Ordo Seclorum" banner. It was my first tat. I can't even remember why i wanted it now. I just thought it looked cool. :lol:
 
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my wife had some relatives that perished in Sobibor. :(
 
I had family on both the western and eastern sides.No nazis though i do appreciate the majority where just cannon fodder.
 
I even made a point of making the poll anonymous voting. Seriously, why do some people on this forum assume the worst of others? Why should anybody be ashamed if they did have a relative in the army; its not them who signed up for goodness sakes. :doh
Because it is usually born out. Those posting polls almost always have an agenda. ;)

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Yes, one of my great uncles was a flak battery commander during the war and a member of the Nazi Party. One of my first cousins, once removed, was killed in the waning days of the war at the Battle of Berlin. And, for the record, I have no use for anti-Semites, Holocaust deniers, neo-Nazis, and other assorted detritus.
 
Obviously, if you didn't have a relative that served in the German Army, you wouldn't vote and the answer is automatically, uh, "no".

I have a cousin that served in the French Foreign Legion. Does that count?

Do you mean Vichy (not sure if they had a foriegn legion or not) or are you just being a dick? (/genuine question)
 
I even made a point of making the poll anonymous voting. Seriously, why do some people on this forum assume the worst of others? Why should anybody be ashamed if they did have a relative in the army; its not them who signed up for goodness sakes. :doh

Well I notice 4 people have anonymously signed up to having relatives in the SS and other not so nice things.

Nasty deeds were done by most countries in WW2 (my dad drove an ambulance! :mrgreen:)

However for those who were involved in doing really sick work, I doubt if most of them would tell their children. Torturing people or mass murdering men, women, children and babies is not exactly something you are going to be proud of and after the end of the war, any ability to rationalise this into something that had to be was gone.

I think lots of Germans were opposed to or not aware these things were going on.

However, in all of Europe we have seen a rise in antisemiticism recently along with the rise in Islamophobia. (these sort of things tend to go together) - though antisemitism has not risen in the UK.

Antisemitism and Islamophobia rising across Europe, survey finds | World news | The Guardian
 
My, great, but insignificant uncle Helmet served as a Nazi in WW2.

He invaded Austria but when Hilter asked him to invade nations that were not already really Nazis at heart he quit and opened a German brewery in Jerusalem.

It did not do so well.
 
Its possible I suppose. My step-father was a full-blooded second generation German immigrant. I never really inquired into that side of my family's past lives in Germany. Also there are some German ancestors in the family tree(as far as blood goes), but they go way back before WW2.
 
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