Our family couldn't hate Germany since our heritage is German. In fact, we still had quite a few relatives who lived in the part of Germany that Russia swallowed whole. They had it so bad that after the war was over, my family sent them food packets and money to keep them for starving.

We were going to go to East Germany and look up some of our relatives when my parents came to England to see John and I in 1968. Unfortunately, that was right when Russia invaded Czechoslovakia and if we had crossed into East Germany, my Air Force husband would have had to go through a security clearance to get back to the West and we would all have had to give up our passports to get in and we refused to do that. It just wasn't worth the hassle. So we never got to meet our German relatives.