My familiy is German. My parents are both born in 1940, so they were 4 when war was over.

My father's father was wounded in WW1. He was a policeman. I do not know what kind of police. There were many different kinds those days. More or less all of them did bad things. My fathers family ended the war near the frontier of Austria. My aunt still remembers that they went into the mines when the town was bombed. My grandfather was in a prisoner camp after the war. When he returned my father didn't accept him because he didn't know him!

My mother's father didn't go to military because he had 7 children. His oldest son was 15 when the war was over. He fought for AAA for the last months and was the POW.

There is a story about my grandfather. He was a manufacturer (chiseler). One day he saw children throughing stones at a women, who was Jewish. He told them to stop doing that. Next day the leader of the local NS party (who was in the same music club he was) told him that he had to leave the town immidiatly. So he moved with his family the same day. He managed to find a job and to feed his children somehow. They moved to Augsburg. My uncle told me that he was attcked by US fighters on his way home from school. Augsburg in 2000 years old. It was destroit completly just before war was over. After the war my grandfather made good business - the family of the Jewish woman had left the country in time. They owned a factory and remembered my grandfather.