Many of you have no doubt heard of the guy running for Congress in Ohio who used to dress up like a Nazi soldier in WWII reenactments.
Ugh, ugh, ugh. He lives HERE IN MY CITY! And he was already problematic BEFORE this came to light. GAH! I feel filthy, just living in the same town.
My Opa marched into Ohrdruf-Buchenwald with the 89th Infantry in 1945. He was just 19 when he helped liberate that camp. He wouldn't talk to me about the war until after I had lived in Germany and visited a number of KZs. (He cried when I called him from Buchenwald and asked me if I understood why he never talked about it. Boy howdy, did I ever.) If my Opa were alive today, he'd have been the first in line to bang on Iott's front door and BEAT THE FUCK OUT HIM for this.
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Ugh, ugh, ugh. He lives HERE IN MY CITY! And he was already problematic BEFORE this came to light. GAH! I feel filthy, just living in the same town.
My Opa marched into Ohrdruf-Buchenwald with the 89th Infantry in 1945. He was just 19 when he helped liberate that camp. He wouldn't talk to me about the war until after I had lived in Germany and visited a number of KZs. (He cried when I called him from Buchenwald and asked me if I understood why he never talked about it. Boy howdy, did I ever.) If my Opa were alive today, he'd have been the first in line to bang on Iott's front door and BEAT THE FUCK OUT HIM for this.