Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

St. Nikolaus

2008-06-16

Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner

Nicole D´Incecco

1939

We have - my sister and I are in the forest up - must have the cow up into the forest. And when we come home, her mother said to us: "Children, now the war has broken out." We had no idea what war is. "Yes, what is it .. what .. War? What is war? "-" Yes, now just need to insert the people, young people need to stop going to the military. "So, in this way we experienced it stop. And then so soon - just have to insert all have many .'s funny - just who voted Italian, had to go to the Italians. And there are sometimes two brothers have been, and one was at the German and the other at an Italian restaurant. And they are as it were, then become enemies. I tell you, there is so much discord has become in the families where the men were adults and may have to choose. We, thank God, have not yet been able to choose, we children, we were too young. But there, where they were grown, have some Italian elected, some German - and there is often the greatest hatred has come out. Yes. That was terrible. But otherwise we have actually the war - we have no bomb attacks had and nothing that we have not experienced much. Except then - the farmers of course, the cows must give away because of the meat that they must have for the military - and the horses - the horses, we said, have had to insert. also gone. It was awful when we saw the horses that have have to go to war.