[plain talk]

I lived with a family in Poland for a week. They showed me framed picture after framed picture of family members slaughtered by the Russians or the Nazi’s. WWII was quite personal and real to the Poles based on where they are located. So they possessed an education I will never have on WWII and not attainable by simply visiting a museum (not that there is anything wrong with that)

[pierrem15]

My mother in law had the privilege of watching 300 people be machine-gunned to death in a reprisal action by the Germans.

She said she never would have imagined that human blood could could run like water in the street gutters.

The Germans and Soviets turned the whole country into a human slaughterhouse.