I will be 100 in less than three years and I have heard Hitler speak on the radio. I don't understand German, but that voice was terrifying.
Most people I knew didn't know he was killing people for quite awhile, it was a terrible shock. Many ordinary people carried out his order to kill. That meant that it was possible for some of our countrymen to be turned into killers.
Readers Digest reported a study done at a hospital in the US to test people to see if they would obey orders to harm people if they thought they came from an authoritative source, and reported that some people would do that. Of course, they weren't allowed to carry out the orders.
Yes I don't know German/Old Dutch well myself. In my former post "Naarden" is "naar"
https://biblehub.com/hebrew/5288.htm and "dam/dawm"
https://biblehub.com/hebrew/1818.htm (no vowels in Hebrew) but in Dutch is jongblut/jungbluth(?,,my Dutch is not that good) or in Spanish Sangrejoven ect. in about 1200ad the people were required to have a "sir name/last name" and so words like
van in Van Naarden is
Van(from) meaning "I'm from,of" Naarden so as an example "Yacob Van Naarden" Jacob from Naarden ect. (short explanation is over time on records Smith could be spelled Smithe.Schmith,Schmythe ect.)
I remember Kunze
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/02/20/695941323/when-nazis-took-manhattan from the radio back then because as the war drug on they became enemies instead of the way the US looked at them before the war and so they talked about it on the news. The salute back then in the US was the Bellamy salute(French) when everyone said the pledge of allegiance in school but all that changed after the war so I did both. There was a song in the 70's that used similar sounding words with this Ma Belle Amie(my beautiful Amie)
At your age you(all of the old) should talk about your memories of that time frame because much of this is going to become forgotten very soon I think. Why I say this is because it's evident from threads like this(and others) that Hollywood does about as good a job of turning novels about this into movies as they do with movies about the Bible (Noah for example) similar but they give it the Hollywood twist called "based on". I'm saying this because I know that if I say that there's some things that aren't being spoken of quite accurately many see it as offensive. I think the reason why is that their are holocaust deniers (and) us(old people) and the younger ones see us as if in the same group when we're not.
It's sort of like hearing someone talk about a book and they only skimmed through it and so the more you talk to them it stands out they didn't actually read the book. To me I see people today screaming about mask(hassle to wear to me too.lol) but I cant help but think these people would have gone plum crazy if they had lived through ww2 in the US. They don't know that we got one coupon a year to get to buy a pair of shoes or what a red or blue coin was. They don't know that everything we got depended on ration book coupons. They don't know that an A sticker on your car meant three gallons of gas per week or what a B,C or T sticker was. Where I grew up we went down to Galveston at night once and watched what we thought was Navy training(they had three bunkers there,,one at Bolivar two on Galveston island) because we heard it on the radio. Later we knew what loose lips sink ships really meant and that what was actually happening was cargo ships were coming out of the ship channel headed for Europe and were being sunk in the Gulf and the Navy was grouping them into convoys and searching for submarines at the same time.
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