Einstein Dress Up For School

9 - It comes to a head ...

wife, Alma R. 's description of the situation as a contemporary witness:

"So just before they escalated this situation in the Muhlenkamp to Erna, she is supposed to increase her friend from next door who have visited Olga K.. No, her mother was not that good. But what Mama Anna was already good from what made the Erna in their spare time too.

The Erna there is so slipped into, as the last child of her parents as a child of her time. Their fate was to come in ever greater strife, being unable to decide clearly, just to stand and between the fronts. The external war was also the same in their inner to a war.

For Erna was an increasingly hopeless situation. All of us, her former classmates were, with hindsight IS generally better off here, despite the massive adjustments by political opponents and the terrible fate of our parents here and there. My father was yes, as a former SPD mayor of Senne II even sent to prison for "high treason" because he had said something critical to the Nazi state. Our parents had already asked several years ago even in town or at their premises for apprenticeships or work opportunities for us. When Erna was clear from the start that she had to stay on the farm only once and had to go to the parents on hand. And that was in her family seem normal. Since it was his own happiness Smith, and the parents would be unnecessarily Erna, actually for selfish motives, because you could get a long time but a Polish foreign workers for the court. You did all - and there was also no moral concerns. Especially if you had sons at the front - and indeed the father Adolf had asthma and Mama Anna was indeed the Mother's Cross in gold.

And they had intended to get a foreign worker - and Erna been able to begin an education - or at least in a company work, so they came out again.

So if You ask me, it had to come to a scandal. That was actually in sight. This was clearly perceived. At that time we have not seen so clearly. We were too young, much too immature to have already been developed for antennas. Today I know that it was clear what happened then, too.

It started with the fact that Erna's smock dresses in the morning always looked dirty, a little less often changed, and her hair appeared less well maintained. She herself seemed suddenly to be maintained less total. She previously appeared in spite of their hard work and appropriate work clothes are still fresh and neat. Everything was clean, it matched the colors to each other, the wooden shoes were cleaned. And that stopped abruptly, which was then all a bit sloppy. I was her companion and even a very good friend, I would have also mentioned this, but ...

Yes - and then came the days that was so in the fall of 1942, where we got the morning Erna not to face if we shuts off the bikes Kamp-mill on the farm. If we then asked mother Anna, where Erna, was whether she was ill, then Anna replied, yes, the well was sick, quite probably had the "rotten Fever. Putrid fever. Yes, who was sitting in the evening until the wee hours over at her friend for a chat and have only nonsense in your head would be, not just early in the morning out of bed. And mother Anna also said she had been with the "Brown Sisters" spoken by the NSA, which would from time to time over because Erna so "obstreperous" would be.

Nowadays I think we might have to take care of everything. Because her condition had certainly to do with the fact that they are on the court "isolated" really was, as the youngest sibling in the chain. The sisters married or out of the house - and the brothers in the war at the front. And Erna stayed behind and had no one to talk. We would have to talk to her. Since I'm really blame sometimes. Then, we would have needed the Erna, as friends, as interlocutors. But somehow we Erna's life was even then already become too foreign. Their reality had so little in common with our reality. And that something "stupid" everyday in all its leading talents then certainly this peculiar "instruction" in the mental hospital where she was even involved with.

Whether that has been with the bombing against the Muhlenkamp at Westerwinter in context - I do not know. The Erna has indeed re-experienced quite differently than we who lived further away and no neighbors were Ida G..

We would have more time to talk with Erna ... "