Horst Schulze

We broke the cellar wall in so in case the house would collapse, we could go into the next neighbor and so on, so on.

They were all connected.

My father joined the Nazi party because he was working.

My mother was a major negative.

Let me give you a story that is hard to believe.

My father, we didn't hear from him.

My parents didn't hear from him.

But my grandfather, who hated Nazis,

Every morning came to my house, he lived in a different house, at 7 a.m., took the axe that was there from the wood chopping plant, and stayed behind the door and looked through the slot in the door, the old wooden door, because the chief Nazi went to work that morning.

When he went to work, he told, stopped in the families where the sun had fallen and informed them.

And my grandfather was a unique character, said if our son died, he will die too.

When he comes in here to report, he's going to die.

So you think you don't know that as a kid?

is coming to take the axe.

That was a normal daily routine.

So you can't help but remember those things.

Or when there was the message that Hitler had been killed for a moment in the radio, my mother was in the grocery store.

buying grocery when it came, the Fuhrer has been killed.

For a moment that was out, and of course that changed a few minutes later.

And my mother said, Gott sei Dank, thank God, it's time.