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My father’s generation was the only one involved in farming only until they were older and got involved in other things.

Conclusion

I don’t know whether today’s youth can imagine this situation.

The war had been going on for five years already, more and more were killed, it got worse.

There was no real future for us.

But that made you stronger to go into the resistance

and help wherever you could.

Horrors that her husband saw

Well, actually it is hard to talk about it now

and to remember everything; there are so many things.

It was not easy to run around at night.

You always had to look out;

always make sure that nobody saw you and that you managed.

Or the boys who stayed at home were always in fear of being summarily executed.

All the members of the armed forces who stayed at home were summarily executed.

Micha told me what he saw.

The first was about a train, which came into Berlin to deliver Russian prisoners to Germany.

The people inside were screaming like mad,

as they were without water and everything.