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Thank you for this suzanna. It's fascinating to hear stories of the post-war German landscape in the American sector 1945-47'. Far too many of these accounts are never published. Eisenhower's (Morgenthau's) revenge was diabolical and probably still hidden from 90% of the American populace. Around the time your father found those GIs seeking interpreters my grandfather (from Freiburg and later Mainz) was living on a farm in Switzerland under an assumed name. In 44' he "deserted" with my French grandmother who was in the resistance. How war upends lives and defers dreams.

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