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213 - Growing Up In Germany During WWII ft. Brandon’s Oma | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 213
Mon, 19 May 2025
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Chapter 1: What was childhood like in Germany during WWII?
No, it's a little city called Black Forest.
Okay.
And so I went to school there, you know, and... Then my mom came to visit again, and she got sick. So... The Black Forest.
Oh, okay. It's real pretty. Yeah, beautiful. Oh, my God, yeah.
It's real pretty.
Gorgeous.
Yeah. So my mom got sick. She had gallbladder attack and they didn't have a doctor in that little town, you know. So they took her, but I would say, I don't know, what, four miles away to the hospital. She had surgery there and I walked, I think, I couldn't do it again. I don't think I could. I walked through the woods by myself, smelling the boars. You know what a boar is? The big pigs?
Pretty bad animal, you know.
Yeah, boars do.
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Chapter 2: How did Brandon's Oma escape to safety?
It was not a good childhood, put it this way. And even my mom and my dad, I shouldn't say dad, but 25 years is too much different in a marriage. It was good in the beginning because she was young. He was still in his 50s. It was okay. But later on is when it started, you know, because my mom wanted a new dress later on and, you know, she wanted to look good.
My dad was jealous as crazy because my mom was a good looking woman, you know. So there were all these fights and where was I? under the table, you know. So from a small kid on, it was, you know, we didn't have no graduations or stuff like that, you know.
When did you make your way to the United States?
Well, I was 18 and a half when I met her dad, Joe.
All this time in Germany and she shacks up with the first Texan she meets. You met a Texan boy? Yeah.
Yeah, he was from Laredo.
Laredo? Where did you meet him at?
Frio, really. You know where Frio is?
It's like Dilley.
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Chapter 3: What were the impacts of the bombings in Mannheim?
Like just standing them up essentially Why did she do this to all of us we can see her Now to wait for the one to come back from America tell him I have a child I
But was it Opa that caught you? Ruthless. Yeah. Opa was the one who caught you. No, he caught you.
Before we were married, okay.
Well, I hope so.
What was special about Opa? out of all the hearts you broke?
He was not a fighter like some of the guys I met. But the only thing, I was a good dancer when I was young, you know. He couldn't dance. He was dancing for nothing. So I had to teach him how to dance, you know. He stepped on my feet all the time. But he learned the poker and, you know, a couple of things. And if somebody, your daddy were very cheerless when somebody asked me to dance, right?
He was okay the first time, but he came back a second time. Now he's a fighter. She's not dancing right now.
He was very cheerless. I'm like, And then you moved back to the United States after that? How long did you live in Germany?
We left Germany, like you said, in 72, right? That was way later. You're talking about at first. Oh, the first time. First time was 50, let me see, 50. I'll say 53. 53?
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Chapter 4: What was the experience of rationing food during the war?
Yeah. So... He said, go to the bus, take you to the Red Cross. So I went in the bus, suitcase, two kids, and then there were other girls that got married, you know, and one French girl I'll never forget. She said, oh, you're traveling by yourself? I said, yeah, my husband couldn't make it, and blah, blah, blah. And she said, where are you going?
I said, he told me to go to the Red Cross, they will help me. She said, you're in the wrong bus. I was in the wrong bus. So I had to take the kids again, suitcase, and go to the other bus that was in front.
Were you speaking to her in French?
She spoke English. She could speak good English.
Okay, so you knew a little English at this time then?
No, I didn't even know the money. The guy on the airport... you know, that had my luggage. I said, oh my God. So I grabbed my money and I just put the hand. Not to the day I know what he took.
Take what you need. Very trusting. It's the meme. Is this enough?
Brandon, have you watched 1923 yet?
I've seen the first season.
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