LemmyCaution
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Lemmy, correct me if I’m wrong, but weren’t you pulled up on the old RODOH forum about a story concerning a fictitious relative of yours who was supposedly held by the Germans in a POW camp somewhere inside the Reich?
Ah, in fact, you and others claimed that my relative in the POW camp - Fallingbostel - was fictitious - get this - because, having heard over the years about his experiences but not read about the camp in eons, I misspelled the camp name in posting about it! I believe part of the exchange went like this, with a Mr Albert Fish replying to my post on my father in law with this rather bizarre post, introducing "Samuel Goldstein" into the discussion:
Yes KentFord9, or should I say "Samuel Goldstein" it was a very silly, amateurish mistake to make. You created the character of your Internet father in law (a supposed veteran of the Battle of the Bulge) to enhance the credibility of your RODOH identity. Unfortunately for you your laziness in copying misspelled names from dodgy American Internet sites has given the game away.
I replied, saying that in fact
If I'd copied the camp's name, I'd have found a decent source and spelled it correctly. Good grief. I misremembered the spelling. The turnip story stuck with me, as did my father-in-law's comments about the Russian POWs. My relating this anecdote enhances nothing about me, my Rodoh identity, or my sense of worth and well being. It was a merely response to Balmoral's crack about turnips and a relevant comment in the context of camp life, a tangent to be sure.
If that is what you mean by my being "pulled up" on a fiction, why, I am a bit confused, because it seemed that your BS was instead exposed in the discussion: I believe, rather, I was "pulled up" on the proper spelling of a POW camp whose name I'd mangled a bit, having made the egregious error of substituting an o for an a, like so, when I wrote that (and the context is interesting and worth reading, IMO) my father in law was incarcerated as a POW
If this "pulling up" is your best shot, and/or how you do history, god help you, Mr Traynor.at Follingbostel, from whence he later escaped. He used to declare, as though it were a burning contemporary issue, that he would never again eat anything with turnips in it, as a result of his camp experiences. He also reported that the treatment of the Soviet POWs was murderous, with many of them on starvation rations. Anti-Soviet GI's would try to smuggle food to the Soviets, whom they ostensibly depised, because they could not bear to see them starving. I guess under certain conditions even a turnip has its charms.
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