MrMilitaria

All my uncle was allowed was a prayer mat from one of the palaces and some bottled sand. Shit's changed.

They may have been normal people going in but they did not leave that way. Generation War is a good show based off the stories of real Wehrmacht soldiers and shows how even the most nice and cheery people become mass killers after years on the Eastern Front. 20 million Russians died in that war. Only the SS could never have done such a feat alone. The Germans saw the war in the east as a new different type of war. A war of races and purification. The Germans your grandpa might have met in France are not the same as the battle hardened war criminals of the East.

Did she know any people that were killed in the blast and if so, did that effect her more than her personal injuries?

Not OP but I would assume that they were more scared considering that their emperor (who had a cult of personality) surrendered due to its power.