Horst Schulze

It's great to be with you.

the start of the war, beginning of the war in 1939.

In fact, my father was drafted late 1939 and came back in between, but left permanently, if you will, in 1941.

I got to know him, I got to meet him the next time when I was seven.

So you meet your father first time at seven years old?

Well, I consciously met him.

I mean, I was a baby, yeah.

In fact, I was playing with another kid in the mud heap somewhere in a village.

I lived in a village.

Somebody came running, go home, your dad came home.

So I ran down the street.

Go home was a couple hundred yards.

Ran there, and there was a bunch of people assembled.

Every neighbor, everybody in town.

That was the news when the guy came back from prison camp.

And he just came back, and I went through the miles.

I knew it was him.

It's a guy with a tattered uniform, and everybody else wasn't.

So I got in, and I looked at him, and I said that, and then he knew who I was.

Oh, well, shock and moment, and people crying and so on.