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1 posted on 07/17/2019 12:02:18 PM PDT by Red Badger
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Original article:

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


2 posted on 07/17/2019 12:02:53 PM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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One crazy little thing Grandpa found in the attic.


3 posted on 07/17/2019 12:03:51 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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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.


6 posted on 07/17/2019 12:11:16 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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Sad that the items are being classified as “german property” when clearly they are not. Grandpa should have kept his mouth shut.


7 posted on 07/17/2019 12:12:08 PM PDT by RainMan (rainman)
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I know a little German...


8 posted on 07/17/2019 12:12:09 PM PDT by C210N (You can vote your way into Socialism; but, you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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Cool story!


11 posted on 07/17/2019 12:15:31 PM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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In case anyone is curious and can't get to the article:

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.

12 posted on 07/17/2019 12:17:46 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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Usti nad Labem, formerly Aussig is in the Sudetenland. Germans were invited to settle there after the area was depopulated during the Black death. The Germans lived there for 600 years but never really assimilated. After the Munich Accord in 1938 the Nazis took over. At the end of WWII all Germans were expelled from the former Sudetenland, becoming part of the greatest mass migration of the 20th century.

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

20 posted on 07/17/2019 12:29:36 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF
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It looked like an ordinary strong to me.


25 posted on 07/17/2019 12:38:14 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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My family is German but somehow from Posen, Poland.


42 posted on 07/17/2019 1:29:36 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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Let us not forget the Germans started World War 1 And WW2. Millions died because Germany wanted to rule Europe.


46 posted on 07/17/2019 2:03:46 PM PDT by captain_dave
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I understand the historical interest and attachment to the hidden items.

Yet, isn’t the value of human life, worth more than those *things*.


62 posted on 07/18/2019 9:54:13 AM PDT by Daffynition (*I'm living the dream.* & :))
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63 posted on 07/22/2019 2:14:15 PM PDT by nutmeg (democRATs: The party of Infanticide, Open Borders, Crime, High Taxes and "Free" Sh*t)
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