I wonder how this worked out for them, specifically, in the end. The wife/mother has a very longsuffering look on her face.
Probably fine. I think a lot about how Bayer, which literally made the gas for the chambers, is still around and apparently doing well. And while Germany was war ravaged, it wasn’t to a much greater extent than the rest of Europe.
Yes but I also imagine many of the males in that picture died or were injured
Germany lost an entire generation of males during WWII. They didn’t run out of war machines, they ran out of soldiers.
Harsh Nazi Parenting Guidelines May Still Affect German Children of Today
huh, who’d’athunk
The book Die Deutsche Mutter und ihr erstes Kind (The German Mother and her first child) by Johanna Haarer was very popular during that time and even basic book for education in the Reichsmütterschule (Reichs mother’s school) and even after the war. The fortunately last reprint is from 1987.
Well the Weimar Republic Germany before the Nazis was also a regressive shithole run by an absolutely terrible monarch. I’m sure the wife had been suffering in Germany for a while
E: I made a silly mistake
That’s the German Empire. The Weimar Republic was an unstable shithole run by a revolving series of coalitions that ended with ze Nazis.
Ah, yes, remember how the Social Democrats called the Communists ‘social fascists’ and refused to work with them?
Oh, wait, sorry, I got it reversed, my bad.
Dewey stars in the darkest episode of Malcom in the Middle
Mom doesn’t look convinced.
The kids seem just the right age for being in Hitler Jugend towards the end of the war. Is there any more info about this family? I’m curious about their individual fates, and whether they survived.
As both boys on the left and right are wearing an HJ-belt, I assume both are already in HJ.
Yes, and I think that if they stayed the course, they would be thrown into the defense of Berlin in 1945
This happened not only in Berlin, e.g. my grandpa was ordered as FlAK aid with the age of 16 (or even 15, I cannot ask him anymore).
I just finished reading a book about German refugees and how they were treated in Denmark.
Its a very interesting book. A lot of boys in their mid teens (16) were in the refugee camps, even though they secretly wanted to be in the Wehrmacht. They were not old enough.
It seems like a lot of effort was put into convincing the German refugees that Nazis were the baddies and revealing what really had happened. Some where executed though, for still believing in Nazism
Hexbear family outing c. 1937