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Sharing a photograph of a young German soldier, Mr. Fowlers tells the story of how he connected with this young man during the war and the importance of visiting his gravesite after wartime.
Transcription
At the end of the war when we went in to Emden, the Glengarry Highlanders went in to Emden to the marine barracks, The Kriegsmarine, it was called. And there were ships there with sauerkraut and brandy and stuff, you know, you don’t mix those two when you’re hungry. There was a German, a young German chap there that was used and I had connections with him at the guard house and he was the interpreter because he spoke perfect English. Here he is right there. His girlfriend came to meet him at the gate every night, now we weren’t there very long but it was long enough that he was there and I got to see his girlfriend, you know, not to speak to her but she was a pharmacist and she spoke English as well. So after the war I managed to make contact with them just out of curiosity because he was a nice clean-cut kid and he wasn’t a Hitlerjugend, he was a German soldier and that’s a picture of him. His wife showed me where his grave was so she gave me that picture of him as well. So that’s just an example of the culmination of post war, what went on and what happened to somebody that you saw and I knew this kid, eh. He looked as though he was about the same age as me at the time so…