Can't you see what's going on?

Hitler was running against Hindenburg for the presidency of Germany when my Grandfather, after thirty years abroad and now a citizen of the United States, decided to visit his origins in Poland. His trip took him through the Third Reich where 40+% unemployment had left the brownshirts in control of the streets.

It was a frightening prospect for the tourist and something to talk about when he arrived in Gmina Brudzen Duzy. No one wanted to listen. Poles had enough problems of their own. Yet, they were proud of the Second Republic and still gloried in the defeat of the Red Army. Under the leadership of Pilsudski, "Nothing is going to happen."

With a visit to the Virgin of Jasna Gora and a muttered prayer for the country, he returned home to Ohio, having made his last and only visit to his roots.