Table of Contents

  1. 1 March 11, 2000 A Death in the Family
  2. 2 May 1939 “Canada”
    1. Summer vacation 1939, and clouds looming
    2. March, 2000
  3. 3 March 24, 1945 Stolpe Field
    1. The Berlin contingent
  4. 4 Planting Potatoes for the War Effort
    1. Morning musings.
    2. A good look at T34s
  5. 5 Revisiting the Bartering System
  6. 6 Toni
  7. 7 April 5, 1945 Home to do the Laundry
  8. 8 April 10, 1945 So who is Gisela Schlüter?
  9. 9 Tatyana
  10. 10 April 15, 1945 Ulli
    1. A Cemetery
  11. 11 March 18, 1945 The Last Party
    1. A walk among the chestnut trees
    2. A break-in at the local Hitler Youth Centre
  12. 12 April 16, 1945 Political Instruction After Dinner
    1. Handling the Bazooka
  13. 13 April 17, 1945 Considering Life
  14. 14 Where Prejudice Leads - Horrendous Secrets
  15. 15 April 18, 1945 Hansi
    1. 18.4.1945 At night.
    2. Hansi’s letter
  16. 16 February 1945 Of Air Raids and Refugee Trains
    1. “The SCALA”
    2. A Parachute
  17. 17 Moving Out
  18. 18 April 19, 1945 Lotte
    1. Tom
  19. 19 April 20, 1945 Hitler's Last Birthday
  20. 20 Later That Night
  21. 21 April 21, 1945 Saturday Morning
  22. 22 Eddie
    1. Their last evening together
  23. 23 Saturday night Monika on the Subject of Taboos
  24. 24 August 13, 1961 Lilly - the Berlin Wall
  25. 25 Saturday, April 21, 1945 Lilly and Axel
  26. 26 August 14, 1961 A Three-Year-Old Vegetarian
    1. Bath time
  27. 27 April 22, 1945, 2:30 a.m. Axel
    1. And they are off.
  28. 28 April 24, 1945 Is that Motz?
  29. 29 March 2000 Back to Berlin
  30. 30 March 2000 A Walk in the Old Field
  31. 31 Berlin, July, 1964 “You Can’t Go Home Again…”
  32. 32 April 2000 Frank Hornung
  33. 33 June, 1945 Fritze
  34. 34 April 24-29, 1945 Flight
  35. 35 Let's Go!
    1. April 28, 1945
  36. 36 April 30, 1945 Setting Out for Beelitz
  37. 37 The Kindness of Strangers
  38. 38 May 2, 1945 …And Return
  39. 39 June, 1945 Out to See Legitimate Theatre
  40. 40 June, 1945 Across the Green Border
  41. 41 Summer 1945 Father, “…Almost Like Peacetimes.”
    1. Where do we go from here?
  42. 42 Fall 1945 Return to the Divided City
  43. 43 A Familiar Face
  44. 44 Emma
  45. 45 September, 2000 Looking One More Time
  46. 46 Hannover, October, 2000 A Final Resting Place
  47. 47 October, 2000 Flying Home
    1. Anna Never Sleeps on Planes. but …
  48. Epilogue
  49. In Memoriam 1945
    1. And in loving Memory of
  50. Acknowledgements
  51. Bibliography and Reading List
  52. List of Pictures
  53. Cast of Characters

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