Escape from Berlin

In 1944 my wife who was born in Germany was posted to Berlin on tram service as a conductress whilst serving in the German equivalent of the Land Army.The tram drivers were men in their 70's,and one day in 1945 she asked her driver what the noise was?He told her it was the Russian gunfire and that they would be in Berlin in a couple of day's.He aske her where she was from,and when she told him from near Hamburg he told to tryband get home because the British had not arrived yet.That with another girl they climbed out the camps toilet window,made their way to the nearest railway station where soldiers bought them tickets to Hamburg (they had no money) and told them not to get off the train before Hamburg if ther were any checks during the journey.The train was held up because of bombing on the way and they arrived in Hamburg the next day.They walked home,the other girl to another town,and my wife never saw her again.The next morning in the town square,listening to Goebbels official told my wife that when they won thw war she would be shot.

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