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Forgotten Brother
U/Pohtehto: “I always thought that my paternal grandfather, from Denmark, was 1 of 3 boys born to my great-grandparents. I found out there was a 4th brother that no one would talk about. Turns out he was killed in WWII by his own men when they found out he was actually a N— sympathiser who’d been trying to act as an agent provocateur.
He woke up one day, was greeted with an armed escort, taken out to a tree line, shot until they ran out of ammo, they came back and had breakfast. The family got a short letter from the army saying he was KIA, then a family friend who was in the army and in the know sent a letter filling in a few details, just enough so they knew why they weren’t getting a body to bury.”