My grandfather told me a story many years ago before he died and it has stuck with me my entire life, its a story that is so shocking I have chose never to tell anyone.
Well It was 1944 and my grandfather was on a small cruiser. They were on patrol in the straight between Italy and Albania in support of the war raging in Italy. It was late at night and he was standing watch on the aft deck it was raining and he had only a short time left on his watch when he slipped on the wet deck and went over board.
He told me how he was terrified and just knew he was dead . He was at sea for the rest of the night, the whole next day and that night was when he was saved by a Greek fishing boat. It was luck that they even saw him and he thanked god when they put him on the deck of the little boat.
It took him two days until he could really walk again and that was when the hell started, there were 10 other men on the little boat and he soon found out he wasn’t going to get a free ride, he was held down numerous times and raped in the bowls of the boat there was a man named Neeki whose name he told me he would never forget he was the worst for the 3 weeks he was on the boat he on a daily bases took advantage of my grandfathers weak state two or three times a day. They gave him less food so he would stay weak and not have the strength to fight back.
When they got to port he thought the hell would be over. Greece was still controlled by the Germans and the thought of surrendering him self to them sounded like a better idea then being at sea with these hairy nasty men but luck wasn’t on his side that day and for the next 7 months it wouldn’t be either. They put him in a wooden box and pulled him off the boat like he was cargo, he said he must have been in the box for a day because he remembered passing out from the heat, when my grandfather was finally opened up he found him self in a small room in what he later found out was a gay Turkish bath.
He was starved to the point of death and raped by 10 to 20 guys a day (mostly sailors who had just returned from sea) Neeki visited him every time he was in port he spoke to me about Neeki with tears in his eyes about how he hated that man with every feeling in his body to this day. He tried to kill him self numerous times but failed it was a living hell.
He occupied this room for 7 months until the Germans pulled out of Greece in Oct and the English that now occupied the country raided the bath house when they came the owners must have knew it because he was the only person left and the captors were never brought to justice, he told them he was being held there by the Greeks that were supporting the Axis powers has a bargaining chip and they bought it, he came home a few weeks later and tried to live a normal life but he has never forgotten it nor has he told another soul until he told me some years back.
Two months later he was dead leaving only me with the story of his time in the Navy.
Of course expect your grandpa to get attacked because he has had sex and that just doesnt sit well with the jealous little MFs in here.