Hi everyone my name is Luka,I'm 28 and come from Croatia. I've been interested in WW2 since my childhood as all of my grand parents were resistance partisan fighters.My fascination with the war has persisted through the years because I believe there's never been such event in human history and will never be.In terms of absolutness,effort,brutality,sacrifice,magnitude and relating horrors like nazi racial policy,death camps,experiments etc.run by smooth,educated gentleman in with gloves and perfect hair..reminiscent of some wildest SF movies..My primary interest is in European theater,especially 'eastern front',with which nothing even compares. So much for now read you soon
Welcome mate, I don't believe we have a Croatian, well, until now. I would love to hear any stories that you have heard from your grandparents I am sure they had some, if of course you are willing to talk about it. Welcome again.
Hi and thanks! No problem,except they didn't like to talk about it all that much Anything specific U would like to know?
Of course, I had a grandfather in the RN, specially the submarine branch in the war, and he told us only one story, which he only quickly went over about how he stayed on the bottom of the ocean for hours waiting for an Axis destroyer to pass by, I believe it was in the Mediterranean but due to him not wanting to talk I know very little. I do not blame him for not talking, what he, and other veterans from any nation went through, could have been believed by actually seeing it. They went through something horrible and something they should never had to have done, but for the sake of myself and my kids, I am thankful that they did, which is why I am glad to call them heroes regardless of what they do or don't talk about. Anyways, if you are interested in ww2 veteran stories there is a thread here done my a member called sapper, who was a veteran of sword beach, I believe the thread is called "sword beach to bremen" But I cant be sure. But he talks all about his experience of the war. You may have noticed that there are some members on this forum which have blue names instead of the normal ones, well they are veterans of ww2 and we are glad they are hear and are often pleased when they either correct us on misinformation, or simply put in there own words what happened during some of our discussions.
Howdy Luka and welcome to the forum. Excellent introduction and we are glad to have you with us. Happy posting.
Thanks for the info! About my grandparents,interesting thing is that they were all captured on certain occasions and lived to talk about it.. Grandpa J. was arrested few days after the occupation by kvaternik's guard,a branch of ustashe kvisling Croatian forces,his father waking him at 3 a.m. 'J.ustashe come for U'.Because it was still early faze the prison was not heavily guarded and his comrades managed to rescue him and a few others after neutralising couple of guards.Soon after he led the assault on the local arms storage thus enabling the spreading the local resistance. Grandpa V. was arrested by chetniks,another kvisling formation of Serbian people.Local informants(goddamn traitors) told that V. was wounded in the leg,wound which he acquired in battle and went home to recuperate.Chetniks put him in a stable with shit up to his knees,threatening to infect his leg,but that was the least of his problems as he was going to be killed for sure.Luckily he saw a relative in a chetnik's officer uniform,called to him and assured him that he is not with the partisans and that the wound was accidental and self inflicted.He was then put under guard in his house for recovery,and escapet to the woods as soon as he was up to it.. Grandma J. was a school girl in 1941.,but she was also a curier for the partisans.One day she was tipped off by a local informant that she was going into the woods late in the evening and she soon found herself being interrogated by security agents.Somehow she convinced them that she was going to a friend and that they are free to check,but if they could continue the conversation later because she was late for school.They agreed.That day she took the school train for the last time and escaped directly to the woods. Grandma S. spend several months in Italian concentration camp,but was released after the capitulation of 1943. AS U see it was a really messy business over here..
Hello Arca. I was in Croatia in 2005, it is a beautiful country and the people are great. I hope we will have some nice discussions together.
Hey Skipper,I'm sure of it I've been to Provance this summer and it's beautiful,so artistic and charming.I love it!
Hey guys,could someone please help me with a profile picture..I made sure it's right size,saved it but it doesn't appear in my posts?
