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15. My father-in-law NEVER told his story

Sat Nov 11, 2017, 03:15 PM

Nov 2017

Stalingrad was so traumatic, it left a goodly number of survivors mental basket cases for life. My wife's dad was a farmer, used to the winter cold. He said all the city boys in his unit froze to death. He said he was well-treated by the Ukrainian nurses on the way back to Germany, but my mom heard from relatives that he was the sunniest disposition of the village before he was drafted, and when he returned, only his wife-to-be was able to lift his somber mood.

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