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In reply to the discussion: Is it just me? [View all]Cleita
(75,480 posts)reading in all history classes when studying the WWI through WWII era. I'm not Jewish and I was raised in Chile, by an American father who worked for an American company. I was alive during WWII, a toddler, but I remember much of what was going on around me because my Chilean mother and I got stranded in the US with my grandmother during the war. We rejoined my dad in Chile after the war. In Chile, I met ex-Nazis, and actually they seemed like honest Germans who had been caught up in an event of history. I also met many displaced people from Europe, whose lives had been destroyed at that time by Nazis, who hated them. I also met other weird characters of those time known as soldiers of fortune. They were various European, American, British, Aussie types who had forgotten to put down their guns. Actually, interesting people, but I never understood what was going on with them (I was a teenager) until I read that book.