What about our ancestors? Specifically my Cajun mother's? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12949609 Non-slave owning rice farmers, didn't particularly have a dog in the fight until the Damn Yankee looters showed up. I could hear the venom engendered from Reconstruction in her voice, a century or so after.

ADDED: you'll find it about as difficult to get adult or thereabouts first hand experiences from the pre-WWII German era.