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Tom's Father's Hungarian History and a Nazi Grandfather
from Christmas Karaoke (with Dan St. Germain and Tom Lewis) · #77
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3 minTom explains his father quietly vanished from his city job after decades, and that he was imprisoned and tortured during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution; Ray reveals his own grandfather served in the Wehrmacht and spent seven years in a Soviet gulag.
- 25:03Tom's father physically abused his mother, shaking her until Tom chased him off the property.
- 25:24Police arrived and told the father they would arrest him if they had to return; father demanded they arrest Tom instead.
- 25:48Tim notes that childhood fights with an abusive father create lasting tension, asks if college was Tom's escape.
- 26:28Tom's father was a civil engineer who worked for a city and designed roads, including some in Washington, D.C.
- 26:48After 20-something years at the same job, Tom's father hit a retirement threshold and left without telling any coworkers.
- 27:13Tom's father was in Hungary during World War II and later participated in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, where he was imprisoned and tortured.
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