Category: Hertha
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The Beggar
February 15, 1945. We were all crouching together in the kitchen. Anna had heard a timid knock in the hallway. Mumbling as always, she went to the door to check. She returned, quite upset, to tell us that there was a beggar standing outside in complete raggedness; she hadn’t let him in. Our mother found…
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1944-11-22
Bill says is he re-reading the last letter he received from them, dated September 21st. He then laments not being able to listen to music and commits to returning to play the piano when he gets home, recalling his parent’s baby grand, with a blue and gold vase sitting on its cover.
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Uncle Walter
January 1945. But even during the last months of the war there were always little miracles. I often slept very badly, dreaming of bombs and Russians attacking us, and I didn’t miss a sound on the street. Once in the middle of the night I heard the trampling of army boots on the cobblestones of…
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The Tomato Garden
During the last two years of the war I had begged Aunt Fanny for a plot of my own. I only planted tomatoes there. Every time a horse-drawn cart came up Bahnhofstrasse, I rushed out onto the street armed with a bucket and shovel to sweep up the horse droppings. As a result, I certainly…
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Sambarger Klöß
December 1944. In what I have described so far, I have tried to familiarize the reader with the Thuringian landscape and the habits of its inhabitants. But this includes, above all, a Sonneberg specialty, the preparation of which has been made so much fuss that I actually have to dedicate an entire chapter to these…