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My Longest Day: How World War II Ended for My Family
Ohlmann, Hans-Armin
http://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/17/my-longest-day-how-world-war-two-ended-for-my-family/Date Written: 2018-08-17 Publisher: Counterpunch Year Published: 2018 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX22920 An essay excerpted from Hans-Armin Ohlmann's memoirs, which recounts his experiences growing up in Germany during the Second World War. Abstract: -- Excerpt: My family of six had moved there due to an American fighter-bomber raid on our town which scared the hell out of us. And there already were other people, most of them relatives and friends bombed-out in the nearby city of Nuremberg (of war criminal trials fame, a bit later). We shared spaces in the small house and the barn, sleeping in the proverbial straw, except when we hid in the nearby beer cellar, a man made cave hewn into the side of a ravine about 25 meters below the village. We deemed it the safest place, and many people without their own bomb shelters spent the nights in it. Subject Headings |