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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oof. Wonder what happened to them about a couple decades later. ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I dunno about them in particular, but in general half a million Germans emigrated to the US between the world wars.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why would you grin? Sarcasm doesn't need to be cruel. Assume they were tortured and killed. So, it's sad...

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

This is a grin: ๐Ÿ˜

This is a grimace: ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

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I made a grimacing face, because I felt like they might not have fared so well in the Holocaust. Very sad indeed. But hopefully they lived a happy and long life somehow.