Germany after the War

I went out a couple of times and it was a nasty, nasty feeling, you know, you could just feel this hostility. We were hissed and booed and you know it was really, it wasn't pleasant at all so we just stayed right in our little enclave. They took another girl and I out and took pictures of us in Bonn with the bomb damage. And I can remember, at this time I had met my husband, we were engaged. He belonged to the legion, the legion, to the outfit and we had gone down. A friend and I had flown down to, back to Belgium, back to Brussels, and instead of flying back we hitched a ride with a car, a general's car, and we went through the destruction and it was just, you just can not imagine, you know. I can remember going through Cologne, driving through Cologne over the Bailey bridges and we got to the town square and there were all these people wandering around trying to get home you know and bicycles piled high, you have seen pictures of them. It was just, surprisingly it was very impressive. The only thing standing was the tower of the cathedral in Cologne. You could see it from anywhere in Cologne. Everything else was just rubble. It's just amazing how they've come back. We just scooted right through, we didn't stop or anything. It was just so heart-breaking seeing all these people who were trying to find their way home. Well I was there for V-J Day, I was there until the fall I guess. I was home back here by October. Oh yeah, we were all glad to be home.