# The Point You Would Have Left Nazi Germany?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 8, 2013, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-point-you-would-have-left-nazi-germany/657780 "2013-05-08T09:15:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-point-you-would-have-left-nazi-germany/657780/41 "2013-05-16T12:21:19Z")

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I would have left as soon as I’d finished my bombing run. 😉

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-point-you-would-have-left-nazi-germany/657780/42 "2013-05-17T00:31:26Z")

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> [@Gleena](#):
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> I can give an anecdote about my husband’s paternal grandfather. A well off Jew from an aristocratic family - his father was an ambassador and a decorated WWI solider, he was born in Shanghai, raised mostly in Germany but somewhat internationally, who was a university educated architect working as a clerk in a big architectural firm in Berlin.
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> He voted for Hitler, as I understand.  
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Exactly - so many Jewish basically came out stating that they were German, their families had been living there for hundreds of years, why should they leave …

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-point-you-would-have-left-nazi-germany/657780/43 "2013-05-17T01:00:27Z")

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> [@aruvqan](#):
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> Exactly - so many Jewish basically came out stating that they were German, their families had been living there for hundreds of years, why should they leave …

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