My great grandfather killed a Nazi and took this off of his uniform in 1943 or so

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Risethewake on December 5th, 2021 at 21:11 UTC »

My great grandfather snuck a camera over and took pictures when clearing out the concentration camps. My dad has all his photos of captured Nazi aircraft and equipment, the concentration camps, and unfortunately, many piles of bodies. Looking at them is an incredibly humbling experience.

EDIT: For everyone who has mentioned interest in seeing these photos, I just messaged my dad to see if he has scanned copies already or not, as well to see if I can get any more backstory about them. Fingers crossed!

EDIT 2: I just heard from my dad. I originally messaged him and asked him if he had gotten them scanned, and for any more backstory on the photos. He replied to me a bit ago and told me he will drum up an email tomorrow and send it to me, saying it’s a lot to write. So, hopefully tomorrow I’ll have the photos and a really good understanding of the backstory. Thanks for your interest everyone!

LocalRemoteComputer on December 5th, 2021 at 22:26 UTC »

My grandfather got some drafting stuff from a bombed out factory. He was also the photographer for his unit/battalion and took pictures of POW and concentration camps. All the photos were Army property so he couldn't keep any of those.

TRLK9802 on December 6th, 2021 at 01:34 UTC »

My great uncle (he was in the US military) was captured by the Nazis and put in a camp. He escaped and took a fork with him as a souvenir. I have the fork now; it's stamped with the Nazi insignia on the back. I never got to know my uncle, as he passed away when I was an infant, but if I'd been a boy, my parents were going to name me after him.

ETA: It's a spoon. I have both a spoon and a fork from him and I got them backwards. The fork is stamped with just, "U.S." and the spoon has the Nazi insignia on the back.