My Grandma (who lived through WW2) used to make me wash my hands alot. Whenever I complained about it, she would say I had to do it to fight the "Germans." For a long time I thought "germs" and "Germans" were synonymous and that the people of Germany were trying to make me sick.
A childhood belief about wars
others believed things like this
- I used to think that germans had germs on them and that's why they were called that— Jessica
- Since Germans speak German, I thought Jewish people spoke Jewish.— Lori
- I thought Pink's "You make me sick" was "you make me sick, you make me look like a candlestick" LOL— Rice
- I believed that all Germans were Nazis because of one of my classmates.— Joseph
- That germs came from Germany.— Alicia
- I was afraid of my grandma because i thought she had germs because she was german!Anon