Posted on 07/17/2019 12:02:18 PM PDT by Red Badger
There have been many stories told of secret, hidden possessions that were buried away during years of war or turmoil.
Though they remained still and unseen for decades, their eventual unearthing is always suspenseful.
One man has returned “home” to search for family possessions that his father once hid away right before they were forced to evacuate the country.
His father had taught him a special way of finding the hidden objects, but it wasn’t easy to retrieve them. Seven decades after he last saw them, it was hard to tell whether the items had survived through years of wear and tear.
Thankfully, the objects, which had remained untouched since the years after World War II, were recovered and found to be intact. The Daily Mail spoke with some of those who were involved in the discovery.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3192350/German-man-fled-Czechoslovakia-Second-World-War-returns-family-home-70-years-discovers-possessions-father-hid-roof-there.html
One crazy little thing Grandpa found in the attic.
Original story at Daily Mail link has lots of pics!.........
Severed head?
Twinkies,(still moist)?
Weight-loss program?
Toenail collection?
85 years worth of used razor blades?
It doesn’t seem right that he should have to turn over his family’s possessions to the Czech government. They already stole his family’s house and ethnically cleansed them from their historic home region.
Sad that the items are being classified as “german property” when clearly they are not. Grandpa should have kept his mouth shut.
Obama’s birth certificate?
The Czechs were extremely harsh on the Germans after the war. In a way, can’t say I would have blamed them for the nonsense the Nazis pulled in the Sudetenland.
Cool story!
So far several packages have been unpacked. Some umbrellas, hats, badges, paper weights, paintings, pens, school tables, unpacked cigarettes, socks, books, sewing kits and much more. Everything was in very good condition according to the historians.
I'd pay money to hear the guy who stored the stuff tell me why he stored what he did, but unfortunately he's long gone.
Just a bunch of old junk, shoe polish, and books.
The Germans weren’t all that nice when they occupied the rest of the country after they grabbed the Sudetenland.
Lidice.
retaliation for the assassination of heydrich in prague
Correct. The irony being that very few Nazis shed a tear over Heydrich being gone, they all hated him. But Hitler loved the guy.
One of my ancestors came from about 200 km east of Aussig and settled in Hesse, Germany some time before 1659 when he married his wife in a Lutheran church. Presumably he was forced out at the end of the 30 Years War because he was a protestant in Catholic Bohemia. Forced migrations are nothing new to that part of Europe
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