Thanks to
Joshlee23,
a very interesting photo, I have never seen before...
In the 1960s, I was given a German air rifle, it was the then air rifle variant of the "
Wehrsportkarabiner" that was used in the DJ and in the HJ before.
The barrel of the air gun was blocked, we children played with this rifle.
Interesting in this context, the then accountant in my grandparents' company was an Alsatian who, as a 17-year-old young man, served in the Waffen-SS, and later served in the "Das Reich" division.
The man was sentenced to death in absentia in France after 1945 as a participant in the massacre of
Oradour sur Glane.
He passed away in the late 1970s, early 1980s, living a normal life in my hometown Bad Zwischenahn, in his own house. But that would be a very long story...
To get to the point, the man disassembled this rifle into all its component parts in a short time, the man remembered exactly what he had been trained on, down to the last detail.
These young boys have never forgotten what they were taught during their training at the time, all of which was still present decades later.
I don't know why my grandparents employed the man in their company, unfortunately I don't know the reasons at the time?
Micha
P.S. One might shake one's head about it today, but that's just how it was."
One crow never takes the eye out of the other crow!"
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