“...and yet he was a good man.”
Heroes Remember
“...and yet he was a good man.”
We had a, a German officer who was... he was a major and in
the, in the, in the German army, and he was a doctor. And he came
to the door where I lived, and he hammered on the door, and I
opened the door and I saw this man in uniform. And I mumbled
something to him in Dutch about calling the lady of the house,
you know. He, he said something in German. I said something in
Dutch. And I called her over, and when I called her over I took
off into the woods. He spoke with her. He was looking for a, a
place where he could house 40 soldiers, wounded soldiers, and
look after them, eh, because they expected fighting in that area.
She said, "This house is not suitable because the bunks are
too small, it's a children's home." And she was pregnant at
the time. He knew exactly what he had stumbled onto. He knew
exactly what had happened. He knew that she was trying to get
him to go away. He knew that I was something that he should be
taking in. He didn't, he didn't know who I was, I just took
off... but he didn't. He said to her, "I believe you, don't
worry, I will never be back." She had 25 refugees in the house at
that time who owe their lives to that man, and he was a German.
Now, when you look at it that way, he was a person. He was a
person, who was doing a job that he had to do, and yet he was a
good man.
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