Feel good video of the year!
This was already posted today, but I included a bit more of the written description.
It deserves wide dissemination!
i’m 30 minutes in and its terrific!!!
Should have arrived in 2020 lol.
True story- the father of my father in law was in Mussolini’s army in WWII....they were in Sicily as the war was ending hiding in the hills....
My father in law said when they saw American boats making their way towards the coast they ran out and said, “take us!!! please take us!!!”
He later reflected that right then he knew Germany could never defeat an enemy with those kinds of resources. He knew Germany was going to lose.
The newspaper of record in Santa Rosa, CA, used to do a lot of write-ups about the “whatever-happened-to” the German and Italian POWs who were put to work on farms and ranches in Sonoma County. The overwhelming gist of the stories was very much in line with this video. These were young men who, for the most part, fell in love with California and became good friends with the locals. They would come back to visit often and would host their American friends when they visited Germany/Italy.
The whole thing is very much evidence for why Trump is 1000% right about trying to stop/prevent wars. The young men fighting for the Axis in WW2 were not inherently evil people. They were just people caught up in an insane situation.