Luigi Vendittelli

And the German government actually had a compensation plan for prisoners that were sent to concentration camps.

So he got a bunch of money back in the early 2000s because of that.

until they weren't.

And when they turned on the Italians, they turned on the Italians viciously, not a little bit.

I mean, my grandmother used to say all the time, she would talk about the horrors of the Holocaust and all that stuff, but she would always say, we were also victims.

So it's something that a lot of people sometimes wonder, really, the Italians?

Yeah, yeah.

It was a lot of people died and that was a horrible time.

But anyway...

being in the military he said i knew what aircrafts were he even remembered when he was saved in hanover he remembered saying i would i could see the planes with the black star on them it was the americans so he he always said the planes with the black stars saved us which is a cool thing because it's the american military came to save them and uh

I get choked up because I remember the stories really, really well.

And anyway, he knew about this stuff, and he's not a guy who used to lie to me, or lie to anybody for that matter.

So I took him very seriously, and I'm like...

He saw a flying saucer.

And he would say this occasionally in the house, you know, when people come over.

My grandmother would be like, you know, say that story.

And then he would say the story, and everybody would be laughing.

It was like, ah, ha, ha, that's ridiculous, you know.

And he was never laughing.

He was always the one guy in the room who wasn't giggling, wasn't laughing.