归家的战俘——奥地利维也纳，约1946年

Many didn't come back at all.

Some came back incredibly broken. My grandpa signed up at 16, lied about his age so he could be a pilot. Shot down behind German lines, held as pow in Germany for half the war. He got back and his brother begged my grandma not to marry him. "That person is dead, what is left is no longer him." My grandpa was left very scarred but refused to talk about it. All everyone could guess was what they could see from his erractic, abusive, crazy behavior. A year ago my uncle found his journals from when he was held. At some point I need to read them, but...gotta prepare myself.

Japan had a weekly radio show that tried to reconnect people after WW 2. It was on the air for a ridiculously frightening and long period of time. I believe it aired into the '90`s .

England kept a lot of the hard core NAZIs until then. The Soviet Union kept them all.

I didn’t realize it was a prosthetic.. thought he had kept his real leg.

This. Modern shampoos are very good at removing fat from hair. Then organism try to compensate by making more hair fat. Then you just cant not to wash your hair every day. One might even think that shampoo industy is interested in such addiction and increased consumption.

That's why I love this quote by Herman Göring, which puts the insidiousness of War into perspective: **Göring**: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. **Gilbert**: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars. **Göring**: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.* In an interview with Gilbert in Göring's jail cell during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (18 April 1946)

Look at it from this side. You are in a POW camp, lost your leg, war ends and you come home and your town has been bombed to ashes, friends and family are dead and Stalin is running your side of the fence. On the other side. You are a US POW and have lost your leg. You go home, your town is still there, most of your friends are still alive as is your family.

I bet the people who lived in East Germany felt they lost the war more so than those in the West would.