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Originally Posted by 3rd_gear_Ted
Our family mystery; somehow in the closing days of 1944 my father somehow left occupied Denmark with the the help of the underground movement to Peru. He soon after established himself as an engineer with a mining company up in the Andes.
The mystery is the multiple trips back to Peru doing my youth, fast forward 50 years and find my eldest cousin who told me my Dad helped hunt down Nazi war criminals.
He would borrow my uncles .45 and pack it in his luggage. Got to see the gun and then rocked the family with the story.
The money he got funded the families move to California to start his business and the rest is history.
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Amazing history. That story is worthy of a Tom Hanks led biopic!
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Jerry
1983 911 SC/Carrera Franken car, 1974 914 Bumblebee, 1970 914-4, 1999 323ti
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