It was mostly safe in England. They rounded up Germans, Italians, anyone they worried might be spies. If your family stayed in England they were probably okay.
A lot of information about what was going on in Germany didn't come out until after the war. If I'm not totally misreading things, I think Peggy is military.
That does not give her the right to tell me I need to be more polite and understanding of how the systematic murder of my people affects her and her feelings. If she's going to drop this sort of thing on a man on his first day here, she can bloody well deal with questions without getting snappish about it.
[Whoops, still mad.]
So I don't much feel like hearing words in her defense right now, yeah?
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A solid A- depending how much weight is put on dates. What do you want to know?
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The camps for Jewish civilians. How many from England were taken to them?
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Too many. Not all Jewish, but a lot were German refugees. Most were released, but not all of them.
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[He doesn't really want to spell it out, but in case it's necessary:]
I want to know if anyone I know is likely to have been taken. Any of my family.
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[That's at least a relief, even if none of the rest of it is.]
I was told millions might have died in total, but she didn't know for sure. Do you know?
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Well.
Thanks.
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You handled it better than the other woman did.
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Who did you talk to?
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A lot of information about what was going on in Germany didn't come out until after the war. If I'm not totally misreading things, I think Peggy is military.
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[Whoops, still mad.]
So I don't much feel like hearing words in her defense right now, yeah?
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That's fair.
[ Man, what can she even say? World War 2 didn't make anyone look good. ]
Do you want to know more? None of it's very comforting, but it did end.
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[So at least there's that.]
When does the war start, and how long does it last?
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