Welcome to the WWII Forums! Log in or Sign up to interact with the community.

Hello from Sweden

Discussion in '☆☆ New Recruits ☆☆' started by Hafnia, Nov 22, 2021.

  1. Hafnia

    Hafnia New Member

    Joined:
    Nov 22, 2021
    Messages:
    3
    Likes Received:
    3
    Hello my name is Lars, currently living in Sweden.
    I have WW2 history from both sides, my father (deceased 2014), was a teen in Denmark during the war and distributed illegal leaflets for his father who is in the Danish resistance movement.
    He joined the Danish army after the war as an engineer. He recalled going to Hamburg around 1950 seeing much of the city still destroyed. Later he was sent to Greenland to work with the Americans on the DEW line.

    My mother is German as was born during the war. Her father was sent to the east and barely survived several years in a prison camp in Murmansk, Russia. He died in 1990 and to his death refused to speak about it.
    Her family relocated from the Mosel area to the Harz mountains in what would later become East Germany. She made it out one week before the wall was built. She is 81 years old now and still has vivid memories of it all.

    I have joined as I have inherited several albums with photos, mainly from the German invasion of France 1940 that I will post here in the hope they will be of interest and that someone will be able to identify the locations.

    Best regards, Lars
     
  2. Kai-Petri

    Kai-Petri Kenraali

    Joined:
    Jul 31, 2002
    Messages:
    26,461
    Likes Received:
    2,207
    Cheers Lars!
    Sad to hear about your family, but glad you would share the photos. Welcome to the ww2' s. We'll be be with you all the way.
     
  3. Biak

    Biak Boy from Illinois Staff Member

    Joined:
    Nov 15, 2009
    Messages:
    9,077
    Likes Received:
    2,473
    Welcome . I'm sure most on here would be very interested in seeing the photos.
     
  4. CAC

    CAC Ace of Spades

    Joined:
    Dec 1, 2010
    Messages:
    9,503
    Likes Received:
    3,037
    Welcome aboard…
     
  5. LRusso216

    LRusso216 Graybeard Staff Member

    Joined:
    Jan 5, 2009
    Messages:
    14,288
    Likes Received:
    2,605
    Location:
    Pennsylvania
    Welcome.
    By all means, post the photos. There are many here who would appreciate them.
     
  6. GRW

    GRW Pillboxologist WW2|ORG Editor

    Joined:
    Oct 26, 2003
    Messages:
    20,815
    Likes Received:
    3,042
    Location:
    Stirling, Scotland
    Welcome to the forums!
     
  7. Half Track

    Half Track Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jul 28, 2017
    Messages:
    1,597
    Likes Received:
    874
    Location:
    Chambersburg Pennsylvania
    Welcome
     
  8. Kai-Petri

    Kai-Petri Kenraali

    Joined:
    Jul 31, 2002
    Messages:
    26,461
    Likes Received:
    2,207
    Cheers, mate!
     
  9. Hafnia

    Hafnia New Member

    Joined:
    Nov 22, 2021
    Messages:
    3
    Likes Received:
    3
    GRW likes this.
  10. RRA227

    RRA227 Member

    Joined:
    May 26, 2011
    Messages:
    1,684
    Likes Received:
    515
    Welcome to the forum. Please post your photos. Rich A. in Pa.
     

Share This Page