Tag Archive: Darmstadt

About My Father (2)

(Continued from About My Father (1)) Those “trials by fire” were not far off.  After a year of study in Basel, in 1938 Albrecht returned to Germany.  He spent approximately a month in Berlin, finishing his theological studies.  In early summer of 1938 Albrecht spent  almost a month traveling in the UK, visiting London and …

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Berlin Before 1933

MOSAIC #8 I do not remember when exactly (1924, 1925 or 1926?) our family moved from Darmstadt to Berlin where my father had a new job with a company that made small civilian airplanes, the first all-metal airplanes made in Germany, as my father explained proudly. On our train trip from Darmstadt to Berlin we …

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My Childhood

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MOSAIC #2 My father was lucky: He did not have to go to war. He did not become one of the 1,773,000 Germans killed or one of the four million wounded. In 1914, when World War I broke out, he was 30 years old, had recently married my mother, Lydia Streck, and he had a …

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