05-10-2009, 03:08 PM
One of the reasons - although not the main reason of course - I get so agitated by this, is that my own grandmother almost ended up in such a camp.
And that for only slipping her tongue to someone who turned out to be a collaborator.
She simply said "They will get those black ..." ("Black" refers to the collaborators, please see this in its historical context.) not realizing she was talking to one.
In many occasions, people living next to each other didn't know the other one was a collaborator or Resistance Fighter.
One of my uncles was a courrier for the Resistance ..... a lot of my famliy only got to know this years after the war had ended.
Erwin