There was this big German flag

Heroes Remember

There was this big German flag

Transcript

You know, what was a German citizen . . . if you showed a sign that, that you were pro-German, they gave you some extra tickets, some extra food tickets. All the food was in tickets, eh. They were all distributed. So, if you were a friend of the Germans, they always shuffle you an extra card to do, to kinda show their appreciation. You know we, we . . . my dad used to, used to peddle milk in town and, and I always went to the same customers. And there was this one people, very nice people. And, and so one day, it was in, in the summertime. They had the balcony doors open upstairs and, and a little bit of a deck and here was a big German flag. And I told my dad . . . and I said, "I don't want to go there anymore." And they were the nicest people. They never said nothing, to us . . . but looking at the flag in their house, I mean, you know it, well, I, I know one of my neighbour girls and the mother, mother and dad broke up. And there was, what, eight or nine kids. Two of the girls, they did the laundry for the German soldiers and had more offers, maybe just other things as well, I don’t know, I just but, but I know one of them were hunted. And some of them girls got caught and they cut the hair off, and they put them on a fire truck and they drove them around through town. This happened. I've seen that, yeah. But they were not very popular, no way. It's a, not very popular.

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Mr. Lammers discusses German collaborators and recriminations against the some of them.

Henk Lammers

Mr. Lammers was born near Amsterdam, Holland, on March 11, 1926. At the time of German occupation, he was 14 and worked on his and his neighbour’s farms. He offers numerous perspectives on life in Holland during the Second World War. In 1946, Mr. Lammers joined the Dutch Army and served a tour of duty in Dutch Indonesia, namely Sumatra and Java. Mr. Lammers now resides in Ayton, Ontario, where he has been actively involved with the Cadets.

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