You two ham it up a bit, don't you? Wgat Jean writes about Theo is very true, I htink, and even his son does not understand how a catholic Chris...

I know you like reading, so here another link about the Graves Registration Service, if you don't already know it. Perhaps also interesting for all...

Now another clue for why I think the 2 men are Dad and Gidrie. Dad's father happened to be born in Paris but that line was from the Eifel in Germany/...

Jean, you are writing fast than I can read and answer... Today I found another interesting document, a thesis of 119 pages about the German POW syst...

Concerning the translation I must confess that Google was a help for the basic translation, but german grammar is "different" so I had to rearrange th...

I called Mr Neifer today, he and his wife were very kind and interested, but he said that nearly everything he remembers is writtten in his article. A...

In Sr. Edeltrud's text I found another name: Mauel. Theo Mauel was paymaster and later head of the administration of the hospital, he died at the bomb...

Marion, I'm relieved! Jean, I'm sorry. Your mail of the 2nd was locked and in my spam folder, I just found it. And what a mail! In the file brot...

Jean, it seems as if those days were dry and the water level not so high, and your dad was a swimmer and a young man, so crossing the Sieg would not h...

Dad knew how to swim (he had been a life guard for several summers in NY) if that was required getting over the Sieg River. So he was a collegue...

Jean Yes, a Lazarett is a small military hospital. Civil and bigger military hosptals are called "Krankenhaus" - so the Bethesda Naval Hospital, als...

Wow! Some years ago I bought a CD-ROM with historical maps of Siegburg and have placed them this evening here to look for such a map - but you've been...

I checked a lot of photos of dog tags and identity cards of prisoners of war in german camps, nearly all numbers are below 20,000, and all of them als...

Oops, her's the map.

I'm reading "The last Offensive" by charles B. MacDonald at the moment, downloaded here from the main site, and found the attached map in the book whi...