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  1. Bart (Moderator) NKVD Channel Maintainer

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    So you are Finnish? Was your grandfather a National-Socialist?
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    My grandma is japanophobic because of the war in China...
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    Yes I am Finnish and no I don't think my granfather was a national socialist, swastika was the insignia of Finnish Air Force.

    For example the mark of Finnish war pilots (my granfather had one of those)
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    Insignia of Finnish Air Force 1918-1945
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    Bristol Blenheim (my granfather has flown one of those)
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    Here's is a picture of my grandparents in 1895 (Lol there Polish, which Poland diden't exist then so they either lived under the Kaiser, The Hapsburgs, or the Tsar) I have another one of just my great-great-great grandma.

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    This reminds me of my grandparents marriage picture (except it had more color).
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    You don't know where they exactly lived?
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    Yeah i have my entire family record on adobe. they first arrived to Buffalo, they where born in Poznan Poland in 1850s, The record is very big.
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    They probably lived in europe because europe doesn't have color, especially eastern europe.
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    The Prussians gained that city in 1793 and remained under German rule until the Versailles treaty... So they were born in Prussia which later on became the German Empire...
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    GOD SAVE THE KAISER THEN
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    That anthem had the same music as God save the king/queen, but the Germans were too probably lazy to write their on tune

    But I prefer this one... That should have become the anthem of the German Empire instead...


    Edit: But why did they leave Poland?
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    Because Poland's a shithole.
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    I would assume economics, as well as being Polish which means Catholic the now Pro-Protestant Germany would be very mean, and the Orthodox Russians right next door would be as well. As well as Political impression, Ironically we had family fighting for the Russians, The Germans, and the Americans in world war 1.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Posen
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    Right, forgot about that.

    The Swastika kind of got a pretty bad connotation after WOII...

    It actually looks pretty bad-ass, if you look at it.

    Really? I thought it was a British plane?
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    Yes it was but we got our planes from all across the world, for example we used a lot of Fokker's planes.
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    Yay, Fokker is Dutch! So that means the plane was older than 1941, right?
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    I know that my great grandfather fought in the Battle of Britain, in the RAF.
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    Did he shoot down some planes?
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    Yeah, the company was founded in Germany as early as 1912 I think. At that time, the Dutchman who founded it was living in Germany, so while Fokker is Dutch as you say, Fokker is also German. But mostly Dutch.
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    Well in world war II it was dutch.

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