M O T H E R
That’s how we were reunited

   When it became clear that Germany was going to surrender the airforce formed a number of units called air disarmament units and each of these units was given a task, whether country or part of a country. In my case that little unit of which I was a part was assigned to Denmark. We had to take over all the Luftwaffe installations and personnel and equipment in Denmark. And we had to destroy the aircraft and take the prisoners of the Luftwaffe staff.

   I was in Denmark with this special unit when I got news in a very roundabout way that my mother had survived and returned to Duisburg. So I then discovered where she was and I got compassionate leave, a special leave to go and find her and see her and that’s how we were reunited. But my sister had died on the Todesmarsch from the camp that she was in with my mother.
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