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Now the story of my other grandparents.

Irmgard was a young woman during the 1930s. She travelled a lot with a friend of her. She told me that they visited the propagandistic Summer Olympics 1936 in Berlin. She was really fascinated and reached to enter the infield. She bought a camera and told the security that she is a journalist and they let her pass. After this event she met a young NS-officer and was invited to a party at the "Reichstag". She always told, that their was a singer at her table, named Jopie Hesters.

When the war started she had to work at a manor in the (old) east of Germany. There she learned her life motto: "I felt asleep and dreamed that they lif is only duty; I woke up and saw the duty is joy."
Irmgard died a few weeks ago and I read her diary. She never talked about the end of the war and why she moved to the west of Germany. In her detailed diary are missing the first two years after the war. I found an entry where she wrote, that she never would talk about this time, because to much horrible things happened. But these horroble thing let her flee into the west.

In her new home town she was looking for a husband and found Heinz.