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2018-04-11 -Land of the Free

Helga Lustig - When the Nazis Came for the Guns

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-11 10:14|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 When the two SS men came to arrest my grandfather in his law office, seeing the hunting rifles in the gun cabinet that he did not touch and the growling hunting dog that required Grandfather to maintain a two-handed grip on her collar persuaded the SS men they wanted to return the next day with reinforcements. Even though, one assumes, the SS men had revolvers or some such weaponry as part of their uniform. My grandparents fled across the border into the Netherlands that night.

As a condition of receiving asylum, my grandparents had to agree that the only relative they could bring in was their minor child — my mother was eleven at the time. The grandmother that lived with them had to stay behind, with the result that can be imagined.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-04-11 21:58|| 2018-04-11 21:58|| Front Page Top

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