by Jack Hoehn | February 27, 2022 | My grandfather was born in Odessa. He was not a Ukrainian or a Russian, but many Germans lived in German colonies at that time, farming the rich Ukrainian land. Later on when the Russian Czar decided he needed to expand his army, even German colonists began to […] Source: https://atoday.org/world-war-me-a-personal-response-to-the-invasion-of-the-ukraine/