[German]
Uncle August Ellinger was August Ellinger's son and visited Alfdorf-Haselbach. about 50 km east of Stuttgart in the sixties.
When winter came, he took out a towel and ice axe, chopped a hole in the ice in the stream and bathed there. He had learned that in Siberia. The Russians had accused him of collaborating with the Americans and sent him there to serve a sentence.
The reason for this was that the Russians had appointed him county governor after the war. His father August Ellinger was a Social Democrat and had worked for the national organization with housing construction for workers. But he did not survive when the Nazis stormed the national organization's property on May 1, 1933, including the housing construction.
August's brother Karl emigrated to Norway. When German troops attacked Norway on April 8, 1940, it was natural for him to become a Jøssinger. He had to experience that his son-in-law Gabriel (Gabbi) Lund was shot by the Germans. Therefore, the part of Solfjellsveien, where he lived, was renamed Gabbi Lunds vei in Oslo.
August's brother Karl in Norway also had to experience that the only son who learned German from him (while they were fishing) enlisted as a German soldier. When his son in a German uniform visited Haselbach (where I grew up) and his relatives, he said afterwards that the war will never be won because there is too much resistance among the Germans (at least in the village where I grew up and my relatives). He was of course completely wrong when it came to ordinary Germans who fought in blind faith in authority until the very end, even if it was overtime. Everyone with any sense left had to understand that the war was lost.
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