There is so much to do for those you know how to look. Yesterday. In our village there used to be a 97 yar old lady whose familly came from the Marne Battlefieds in 1917. She was only a child then, but she is a real encyclpodia about both WWI ans WWII . The stories she told were just unbelievable . Her hometown was 100% destroyed during WWI. When she came here, her husband was a carreer officer and was often based in Austria after 1945, so she lived in Vienna and Tirol. (occupation forces) . She told me how the officers were billeted there. Her son is born in Vienna. After the dead of her husband, she stayed here and put flowers on the graves of the fallen Commonwealth soldiers in our village. This is how I met her. I sometimes went to see her at her home to hear one of her stories. When she was a child she had to identify the body of her father among a pile of legs and arms that were scattered in a trench that thad been hit by a German shell. She told the medic that he had assembled the wrong body parts because she recognized a shoe that did not fit with the corpse that had her dads wallet....
Anyway to make a long story short. I saw her son yesterday who told me she was moving to a retirment home and that he was going to sell the house. Well imagine my surprise when I found out he had just given away a collection of pre war Hitler pictures that her husband had found in Germany in 1945 There were also complete sets of WWI and WWII medals , several guns, M-1940 gasmask bags , military logbooks and others. I went to see the guy who got them (he is a friend) . He is going to keep them , but when he's done looking with the pictures. He'll allow me to to scan them! So hopefully more relics to post soon.

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