[VideoView]
Christine Fiegl
After the bombs came the inflation
video length:
02:54
interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Benjamin Epp
copyright location:
Innsbruck
date of recording:
2008-08-23
English translation by:
Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner
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1917
transcription:
At the end of the war, the First World War in 1916, 17 .. . 1917, I believe, was the first attack ever in Germany. This was the first attack. There are the planes - it was wonderful weather, I will never forget. Pentecost, Whit Saturday, 1918 will be it. And there they were - they have thrown only the Americans - bombs on large squares. I do not know how many dead were there. .. There was not set to Cologne, no. .. And so were pretty - and here they were dead, who were there in a cemetery in Cologne .. extra you have buried. Yes, yes. One can experience everything. And since we are still often after the war - 1918 was the end does not. And here ..- have been interesting. Since they have the soldiers and the officers .. All torn down - one can not imagine. Next to us was a hospital. That was .. there were many soldiers, ne. And often the doctors who had to anyway to the patient. Since they have where the ruffles .. razed, so that was - after the First World War to tell it was not pretty. And then things got even worse - then came the - you know which of your parents - inflation. It was the inflation of all time, you could say. As have the people who had a house or so, with the rent still can not afford a loaf of bread. to tell which is not fine. Yes, the officials - all of which got no more money as before. All were poor. They had to do all do not. And then came the .. factories .. How do you say? - The Ruhr region, known as the Ruhr, no, there was indeed confiscated everything ..