General Discussion

It's posts like yours that keep me coming to DU for education, insightfulness, and personal experiences that are relevant.

My mother was German but she was a very private and quiet woman who was overwhelmed by a life with an abusive husband who wasn't a good provider and her seven children. She died when I was only 17, and I regret that I really wasn't that interested in her life as a young person or her parents who were both German and whom I never knew. I do remember that when my loud-mouthed, angry father would get mad at her he'd call her a "f***ing Nazi. It could have been just one more of his derogatory epithets which he was famous for, but I've often wondered about my maternal grandparents and what they were like during WWII and how my mother grew up. I hated and feared my father, but my mother was one of the most unprejudiced people I've ever known.