I have a box containg the letters my father wrote to my mother over the 12 month period before he was able to get her over from Germany after the end of the war.They met in Germany in the Harz mountains where my mother's firm had been evacuated from Berlin and my father was in charge of "clearing up" in places he never spoke of to me (Belsen being one of them)
I have tried to read them and want to preserve them for our DDs but I feel I am intruding so keep putting them aside. They do convey a touching optimism in the future- "bluebirds over "etc and belief that evil had really been put behind them. The "young man in love " Gally describes is very much the man who wrote these and I do think our DDs would appreciate them - but not the world.
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