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I have dozens of handwritten documents, in which my grandfather tried to justify himself after 1945.
The man was thoroughly infected with the Nazi mindset, it fit into his ignorant concept of life, he didn't know any better.
And as I write this today, I'm reliving those early years in the 1920s, and the 1930s.
The home-loving young man in search of closeness, community, affection, even comradeship.
It is difficult to understand, to comprehend the conditions of that time, the very many letters, these spoke a liberal language of a young man.
No later career under the regime of the National Socialists, which the grandfather actively supported, until the end.
Today, I am heartily sorry that my grandfather had to grow up like that, but all that corresponded to his attitude, which did not fall from a sky....
The old gentleman would not understand today's world anymore.
Hans
"Julian Kruse - Fallen From The Sky"
The paradise of the successful lends itself perfectly to a hell for the unsuccessful. (Bertold Brecht on Hollywood)