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Rhiannon12866

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3. I know that the troops were active for years.

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Reply #2)

Mon May 8, 2017, 06:40 AM

May 2017

My Dad went to Europe as a young student in the early '50s and he told stories about occupied Berlin. He said you didn't want to go where the Russians were in charge. When he traveled many years later, Germany was the first country he chose to re-visit, he was anxious to see how it had changed.

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Thanks for the reminder! One of the most defining days in world history! Rhiannon12866 May 2017 #1

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I know that the troops were active for years. Rhiannon12866 May 2017 #3

Berlin was the most uncomfortable place in Europe for many years Cooley Hurd May 2017 #4

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