Part 23: My Lost Friend Of course, I also had a friend. He was the same age and had beautiful blond curls and although there was little opportunity to play together, between us had formed a firm friendship developed.
Part 22: The Life Of A ‘Pimpf‘ At the age of twelve, I endured all events resolutely. I had fixed tasks that I fulfilled conscientiously.
Part 21: Cherished Radio The front of the house was cracked several times and covered with heavy brown soil from the basement to the eaves.
Part 20: Moving Again The most important task now was to equip the empty apartment with the necessities of life. There was a lack of everything.
Part 19: Tenants On Demand Out of ten houses in the settlement, three were destroyed: No. 1, No. 8, and No. 10. 21 people dead, all women and children.
Part 18: We Survived I did not hear the explosion. A superhuman shock wave hurled me into an infinitely black nothingness. Then it was silent – deathly silent. After an eternity, the children screamed in agony.
Part 17: My Playground Of all this I neither suspected nor knew. I was only a boy of about eleven years old when I sat on the board of the big sandbox on a genuinely nice May day and watched the children baking patties and building castles.
Part 16: My Hometown Is Being Destroyed Although our town was located between two large chemical plants, it had not yet been bombed. On an early-winter December day, there was an all-night air raid alert.
Part 15: Bread And Butter Despite all the shortages, father always took one or two extra slices with him when he went to the factory for his shift. When my mother asked him why he needed so much bread, he did not answer at first.
Part 14: A Cozy Luxury Apartment Of course, the relatives were curious about the new apartment. Aunt Emmie came, looked at everything and said to my mother with admiration in her voice: ‘Lotte, you live like a princess.’