European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I was born on 13th of October 1912 in Tempelhof (Berlin).
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My mother definitely had a hard time during the war.
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In 1915 my sister was born.
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It was especially hard in 1917 (as my father was conscripted as a soldier),
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where the food situation for the German population became more and more difficult.
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I started school in 1919.
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The school was not far away from our parents’ flat.
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Role model functions developed later with progressing age.
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But there was no role model between the teachers I had.
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Partly, they were teachers who had been demobbed by the imperial army
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and who were put into teaching profession; like the sports teacher
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or the teacher of religious education who had no educational skills.
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And characteristic for this time was that we had a teacher who was a real bully.
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When the lesson was about to start, first two or three pupils were given a good thrashing, with the cane.
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Maybe another thing: I was malnourished and was given 'Quaker feeding'.
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That was from the United States, from the Quaker association
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and there I got half a litre of milk soup and a bread roll.
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You have to see that this was 1920/21, where a lot of problems occurred in this post-war period.
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Post war period – deserting the army
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They wanted to keep me in the army when the war ended.
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