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Onme thing about my family history I'm really proud of
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Onme thing about my family history I'm really proud of
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.
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Tough act to follow. All we've got in our family tree is Rutherford B Hayes.

The Morons seen to think we had relatives on the Mayflower. My sister did the checking. I highly doubt it. Can't trust the magic underwear folks.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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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.
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(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.
Don't sell yourself short.
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(August 17, 2015 at 9:55 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Don't sell yourself short.

I simply know myself. I'm not the most courageous person. Though, given that being jewish warranted a certain death sentence these days, there was nothing to lose. And even though my grandmothers haven't been jewish, I'm still half jewish.

The reason why I'm posting this now is, that our xenophobic anti muslim rightwingers will probably win the next election. I will take the streets when they do, together with the ones not wanting to live in that kind of environment. It also gives you some kind of clue why I always stand up against verbal bigotry of any kind.
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(August 17, 2015 at 10:00 pm)abaris Wrote:
(August 17, 2015 at 9:55 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Don't sell yourself short.

I simply know myself. I'm not the most courageous person. Though, given that being jewish warranted a certain death sentence these days, there was nothing to lose. And even though my grandmothers haven't been jewish, I'm still half jewish.
Courage ain't everything, not by a long shot. If you don't have brains all courage gets you is injured or dead.
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(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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I never really got on or liked my dad. (Neither did any other member of the family) ..He's long gone now, as is mum.
But as a young kids I remember him showing us what looked like an ancient piece of paper folded for so long it had sticky tape holding it together.

It was a letter of recognition for his efforts fighting in Greece against the Nazi occupation.
It was signed by the queen.
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