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Originally Posted by Centropolis
we had native french speakers until the second world war.
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That was quite a severe humiliation to the entire French-speaking world indeed.
Even something more or less personal to all of us in France proper. Like you have no idea.
For instance, my grandpa was a professional military; a graduate from
Saint-Cyr, a prestigious military school while he was only born to a poor Swiss worker (a slater) and a humble woman from the French Alps. His father killed himself from falling down from a roof when he still was a kid.
Nevertheless, he was brave, good at math and studying, and had to do a whole lot of efforts to get there and become a military officer. He is the best of our family in my opinion. A real generous and faithful hard worker and all.
And then... He spent almost 5 years in a motherfucking Nazi prison. The Germans wouldn't trust French captains like grandpa, so they strictly kept them locked in prison.
When he came back from Germany in 1945, he was as skinny as a martyred Jew, traumatized. He simply never talked about that, cause it was too humiliating.
He just left the military to lead an engineering career. That was much better for him.
There was no more food in Germany as of 1944, so you may figure how prisoners were treated...
Hey, you're not alone in the world. Everybody has a painful story somehow, anyhow.
Bah, no one cares anymore anyway. Not even my grandpa. The Germans just finally had their revenge, as Napoleon's army had severely humiliated them before.
The Germans are nothing much impressive to us. Only our neighbors.