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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8364884, member: 110350&quot;]So sad. But I do love old family photos like these. I&#039;ve shown some of my own, including of my maternal grandfather who served and was wounded at Verdun (on the other side from yours!). My grandmother had four brothers, all of whom also served in the German army. Fortunately, none was killed. Two ended up fleeing the Nazis and moving to France in the 1930s; one survived. (As a non-citizen, the other was briefly in the French Foreign Legion until France surrendered.) When my grandparents finally were able to leave Berlin and Germany in late May 1941 and escaped to the USA via Lisbon, one of the few possessions they were able to take with them was a cardboard suitcase filled with family photos dating back to 1859. Those photos were the origin of my interest in family history, which began in my childhood.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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