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Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering
Tim....I wonder if they ever talked about it in the post-war years.
It seems it wasn't uncommon that people didn't talk about the war in post-war years, even if family members chose opposite sides during the war. For a lot of people it was a closed book, it was painful to talke about it and everyone focussed on rebuilding the country and returning to everyday life.
There was a good documentary on Dutch TV recently about the immediate post-war years....it must have been a very "strange" period.....for instance ...survivors from the camps returned to their homes only to find someone else living there and all their possessions being stolen.
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Hi Alex, you are right, I can't even begin to imagine the depravation and heartache experienced. I have another friend from Holland who at 14 left home and basically spent the war with other kids scavenging to survive, trading everything from discarded cigarette butts to potatoes... I'm lucky to have lived and raised a family under completely different circumstances...