Cz-L Fw: Bridges

Berti et al, I presume this was meant for the list, but it looks like it was
sent only to me. I have removed the two attachments (signature and logo) and
am sending it on to the list.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Berti Glaubach" <berti_at_netvision.net.il>
To: <romers_at_shaw.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:35 AM
Subject: Re: Bridges


> Hi all,
>
>
>
> Hedwig is right , I mixed it up. It was in June 1941 some days after the
> 22th when the Germans attacked the URSS, that I was standing with my
uncle
> near a third floor window. There had been a first big explosion and we
were
> looking to the North direction => Prut, when the second occured. The glass
> of one window was sucked into the outside and my uncle's nose, formally
> pressed to it was suddenly surrounded only by air. I was 11 years old
then.
> The retreit of the German and Rumanian army in march 1944 was relatively
> uneventful, Czernowith, luckily, was not considered strategically
important.
> There were only a few German (probably wounded or forgotten) soldiers
> arround, when the Red Army came back.
>
>
>
> My "nachtraegliche Verarbeitung" (post factum reworking) of this event, is
a
> Freudian slip, probably would have prefered the Germans to have done it.
As
> Hedwig states the Main Railway Station being very close to the Pruth was
> probably not usable at that time.

> Berti
Received on 2004-05-26 14:11:36