Things that shake up your perspective.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

So my parents and myself were helping organize some things for my grandparents when we came across this.

(SPOILER)

As near as I can tell, (my German is weak) it's a swimming certificate. What makes it odd to me is that it's a swimming license from 1941, with a Nazi government seal on it. It was my grandmother's.

I know it's nothing amazing, but it's just odd for me to keep in perspective that the same body of government that was attempting to conquer most of the modern world and systematically exterminate Jews and other enemies of the state was simultaneously building a modern system of roads, supporting some of the arts, and....well...issuing swimming certificates.

So, basically, the point of this thread is what makes you sit back and blink a few times.