The Visit Of A Veteran
Mr. Harold Winter during his conference
April Thursday 5th of 2018, a 88 years old man, Harold Winter, came to College Saint-Charles-Garnier to give a conference about his life as a man who lived the 30's as a child. His voice was full of emotions.
The history of this man was really touching. Harold Winter was born in 1930 in Dortmund, Germany. After Hitler's rise of power in 1933, because him and his family did not have their Nazi Party membership card, they were considered as belonging to bolchevism. By being considered as a bolchevic, Mr. Winter has been bullied and harrassed by everybody. when he was twelve, he got picked from school by SS soldiers and put in a "vacation camp". In reality, it was a camp for the Hitler Youth, a structure placed by Hitler's regime to brainwash younglings. During the time when he was sent to dig trenches for German soldiers on the Western Front. He got hurt in an explosion, got carried in a hospital and survived. When he was at the hospital, Allies told him that Second World War was over.
After that, he went in France to be an intern. It was in the same country where his father has been made prisoner by the Allies. After that, he came back in Germany, where he discovered that his hometown, Dortmund, was nearly totally destroyed by the war. He learned that his uncle was arrested and brought to a concentration camp and never came back from it. Later, he made another internship in Canada. After he arrived in the province of Quebec. After working on making mirrors, he registered in the RCL (Royal Canadian Legion). He was part of the army who invaded Montreal's streets during the October Crisis in 1970. He served as a Canadian soldier for a very long time before he retired.
This man has a lot of honorable values like honor. Him and his family had some guts because it must require a lot of courage to secretly resist the Nazi regime. He was generous for giving his time to us, students. It was an honor to meet this person. I was so much honored that I shook his hand right after the conference.
After that, he went in France to be an intern. It was in the same country where his father has been made prisoner by the Allies. After that, he came back in Germany, where he discovered that his hometown, Dortmund, was nearly totally destroyed by the war. He learned that his uncle was arrested and brought to a concentration camp and never came back from it. Later, he made another internship in Canada. After he arrived in the province of Quebec. After working on making mirrors, he registered in the RCL (Royal Canadian Legion). He was part of the army who invaded Montreal's streets during the October Crisis in 1970. He served as a Canadian soldier for a very long time before he retired.
This man has a lot of honorable values like honor. Him and his family had some guts because it must require a lot of courage to secretly resist the Nazi regime. He was generous for giving his time to us, students. It was an honor to meet this person. I was so much honored that I shook his hand right after the conference.
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