Tag #118998 - Interview #101860 (Marcel Simon )

Then there were the bombings when the German army passed, because the Russians were a couple kilometers behind them. And my father told me that there was a horrible bombing at that time, when everyone pulled back. We couldn’t hide, both my father’s legs were wounded, we were small children, and then he said: ‘Come what it may!’ And father told me that a German came in, I was small, blond, he took me in his arms and he started to cry and said that he had a child just like that at home and that the war was cruel and cursed. There were humans among them, too, not all the German army was made up of SS.