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Onme thing about my family history I'm really proud of
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RE: Onme thing about my family history I'm really proud of
(August 17, 2015 at 9:40 pm)abaris Wrote: This man. He was my grand uncle. But he only was the most prominent member of his generation. They all fought fascism wherever it raised it's head. Within their possibilities. Julius Deutsch founded the first Austrian republican army in Austria in 1919. He fought the Austrian fascists in the Civil war of 1934 and moved to Spain where he was the Republican commander of Bilbao. Being a lifelong socialist, he didn't flee to the Soviet Union but to the United States, siince he also was a lifellong democrat. The english wiki only gives a glimpse of what he did during his lifetime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Deutsch

I view him and my grandfather, who provided false passports to jews during WWII as role models.

'Tis no wonder that you are so well-informed on history; with forebears like that, not studying it would be tantamount to disrespecting their labors.

My grandfather too fought fascism; he died in 1943, a navigator in a B-17, somewhere over northern Germany.

(August 17, 2015 at 9:50 pm)abaris Wrote: Impossible to follow. At least I hope to never experience the same kind of world they experienced. But I would like to have the same kind of courage. Though I very much doubt that.

In your own way, you're working to prevent that, right now. Courage is a great human quality; foresight is more valuable.


Cheers. Smile

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RE: Onme thing about my family history I'm really proud of - by Thumpalumpacus - August 17, 2015 at 10:26 pm

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