Does anyone have any personal family WW2 stories and want to share?

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My own connection to WW2 comes from my dad's parents and my mum's mother. My paternal grandmother who was Greek, lived through German and Italian occupation of Greece. She would tell me stories like about how occupying soldiers would round up people and forced them to watch hangings. Another story she told me was a soldier, she couldn't remember if he was Italian or German, slapped her when she was a little girl for looking at him. The story she tells the most though, is one where herself, mother and siblings were at home without their father and the occupying soldiers came to their village to confiscate guns. They owned one and some fellow village traitor had told the soldiers they had it and so the soldiers violently forced themselves in the home to take the gun.

My grandfather had left Greece in his early teens and migrated to Australia a couple years before WW2 broke out, so was already out of Greece during occupation. He enlisted in the Australian army, his rank was corporal but I am not sure exactly what he did while he was in the army.

My maternal Grandmother was a Malaysian born Indian, she lived through Japanese occupation of Malaysia. She doesn't have as many horror stories to tell but she once told a oddly similar story about forced confiscation of weapons owned by locals and not being allowed to attend school.

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Well, this thread seems to have been a failure, bumparoo.