Healthy candies, malt, eucalyptus, menthol, anisette.ДЄmory: Business was good, until the Great Depression.ДЄmory: Let alone food. But I wouldn't say that my family enjoyed it very much, what I was doing.Д«en: His parents, meanwhile, were running a business. I was a bad kid, you know? I was mischievous and curious, which is beneficial. That's how clear it was.ДЄmory: Robert grew up an only child. That was something, you know, it is like it happened yesterday. And they couldnвЂ™t make out who was in bed with me. And my mother came up quick with a solution and said jump into bed with Robert. He was a leader in the Communist Party and he ran into our house for refuge. Robert: And he was hiding from the SS because the SS were hunting him. I could feel his heartbeat and I recognized quick who he was. Robert: I woke up and someone climbed into bed with me and held me tight and heavy breathing. RobertвЂ™s parents supported the communists, and put themselves - and Robert - in danger to help them. The Nazi Party was cracking down on communism. Robert: I have a clear memory when I was three and a half about a shocking experience.ДЄmory: The experience Robert remembers from when he was three and a half is part of the larger story of what was happening in Germany in the early 1930s. So if you could crank it up a little bit and talk slow.Д«en: At 92, Robert might be hard of hearing, but his memory is incredibly sharp. Robert: Okay, one more thing I'm waiting for my hearing aid. And Robert agreed to tell us everything with a small caveat before we got started. Sometimes, itвЂ™s hard to even tell whatвЂ™s right.ДЄmory: RobertвЂ™s war story is a reminder that things can be much more complicated at the individual level. People in wartime donвЂ™t make the expected choices over and over. TodayвЂ™s episodeвЂ¦Д«en: The story weвЂ™re about to tell you, RobertвЂ™s story, is a reminder of something that is often left out of the fictional or dramatized accounts of war that we hear over and over. And you're listening to Endless Thread.Д«en: The show featuring stories found in that vast ecosystem of communities called Reddit.ДЄmory: We're coming to you from WBUR, Boston's NPR station. Robert: You want to hear the whole story?ДЄmory: I'm Amory Sivertson. Unless you want to hear the - the whole story?Д«en: I think we want to hear the whole story. Robert: I don't want to tell the whole thing. Because his story involves growing up in the Hitler Youth, being forced to join the German Army, and keeping a secret to stay alive. And she encouraged him to do an AMA, an вЂњAsk Me Anything,вЂќ about his life.ДЄmory: RobertвЂ™s AMA post took off. He barely uses the internet.Д«en: But his granddaughter is on Reddit. It was all 'Heil Hitler.'ДЄmory: We learned part of RobertвЂ™s story on Reddit. Anywhere, in the street, 'Heil Hitler,' you raise your hand, 'Heil Hitler,' from morning to night, 'Heil Hitler.' There was no more good morning and afternoon and good evening. And also say, 'Heil Hitler,' when you go into the store and greet people. Robert: We put the swastika flag out on holidays to blend in with the rest of the people. But itвЂ™s the earlier years of RobertвЂ™s life - in Germany - that we wanted to know about.Д«en: What kinds of things did your family need to do to survive? I was born July 10th, 1927 in Germany in the Ruhr Valley.Д«en: Robert lives in British Columbia, outside of Vancouver.ДЄmory: RobertвЂ™s come a long way, literally and figuratively, to get to the 'sticks' of British Columbia. Now that heвЂ™s finally telling his life story, he seems ready for his life story to end. But the man whose story we are bringing you today has spent most of his life not ready to die.ДЄmory Sivertson: HeвЂ™s come close many times. I feel relaxed.Д«en: This might seem like a strange question to start with. If it comes tonight or tomorrow or sooner or later, it doesn't really matter.

music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text.Д«en Brock Johnson: You're 92. The transcript has been edited from our original script for clarity. This content was originally created for audio.

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