That was also the invasion of the russian army in Germany E-Book

Lothar Hans Schreiber

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Seitenzahl: 29

Beschreibung

"Guten Abend" ( good evening ) were the first words that two Soviet soldiers addressed in German to the frightened population when they marched into Knoblauch, a small village near Berlin. They were these words which took away the pent-up fear of the people intimidated by the propaganda and coverage of the terrible events of the war. Personal experiences during the time between the end of the war and the immediate post-war period in and around Berlin of a boy and his mother who had previously fled West Prussia and who had experienced the heavy bombing raids in the last phase of the Second World War show a partly different picture than that, whatever has always been presented as historical facts.

Leseprobe

“Gutten Abend” (good evening) were the first words that two Soviet soldiers addressed in German to the frightened population when they marched into Knoblauch, a small village near Berlin. They were these words which took away the pentup fear of the people intimidated by the propaganda and coverage of the terrible events of the war.

Personal experiences during the time between the end of the war and the immediate post-war period in and around Berlin of a boy and his mother who had previously fled West Prussia and who had experienced the heavy bombing raids in the last phase of the Second World War show a partly different picture than that, whatever has always been presented as historical facts.

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My mother and I had gone to West Prussia south of Danzig because of the increasing bombing raids on Berlin, where my mother's parents lived and my mother worked as a teacher. In the first days of January 1945 we had to flee. To be precise, soldiers of the Wehrmacht were quartered in my mother's school in the Briesen district, who had to leave shortly afterwards and took my mother and me with them. My mother didn't think the danger was that great yet, but the soldiers talked until we went along with the entourage. We were taken to Graudenz and put on a train full of refugees, although we were lucky and only needed three days to get to Küstrin on the Oder. We stayed there for two days with my paternal grandmother, and then went to the nearby Sonnenburg, where my parents owned a house that they had rented. Our tenant made one room available for us. But after about three more days we were woken up in the morning by our tenant's daughter with the information that the Russians were approaching and the last train from Sonnenburg to Küstrin would leave in an hour.

We got dressed as quickly as we could and hurried to the train station. We managed to get to Küstrin old town with the last train. When we arrived at my grandmother's, my father's mother, my aunt welcomed us with the words: “If you still want to go to Berlin, then you have to hurry because the last train leaves in two hours.” We wanted to go to Berlin because we still had our apartment there. Shortly before the end of the war, it was placed on hold. When we arrived in Berlin, we first looked for our aunt Paula near the Friedrichhain because there was a bunker very close to it. The first night we wanted to stay in Berlin again was supposed to be near the large bunker that protected it. There was also an air raid promptly. We felt safe in the bunker there. But the next day We wanted to go to our apartment on Gitschiner Strasse. Before we went to them, we went briefly to Fraulein Neumann's cellar store to buy some groceries when the air raid alarm came. It was February 3, 1945. We walked into the public shelter of the patent office, a very long, narrow corridor reinforced with concrete in Gitschiner Strasse. It was the first