4thskorpion wrote:UMachine wrote:These squads went far and wide.
Toronto 1950.Two men with thick accents speaking English barge through the unlocked door of a recent Italian immigrant's room.
They have pistols drawn and have a photograph of a man in hand.They compare him to the photo and question him about the man in the photo.They have the same surname and are in fact first cousins.He denies any knowledge.
A similar event takes place in Kamloops British Columbia.The man is close to a foot taller and is also a cousin.After this event nothing more.
How did a "recent" Italian immigrant (presumably with his own thick accent when speaking English) know that the two men with thick accents were speaking with a Jewish accent? Or is there some other supporting evidence to confirm these pistol carrying men were in fact Jewish and part of some "far and wide" Jewish revenge squad?
There were many Italians that came to Toronto after the war,along with an assortment of displaced people.Many Brits as well.I knew them all as a child there.
The man didn't know they were Jewish accents,just thick accents he was not accustomed to hearing.They meant business and were in fact very interested in the whereabouts of a man with a long military record who had previously been denied entry to the U.S.
The accents may have been Russian,Ukrainian,Polish,Lithuanian,Belorussian,who knows.Toronto was a very mellow place at this time.Toronto the good.The odd anti semitic rudeness but otherwise a civil place.