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An octogenarian woman talks of growing up in Hitler’s Germany and her family’s escape, only to be captured by Russian soldiers and thrown in a camp. Her mother escaped and carried her sister and her across a river, where American soldiers gave her chocolate bars and hot chocolate. Her memories are blurry around the traumatic, indelible bits.
In the Russian camp, she witnessed a soldier stomp a baby to death. She saw Hitler order a soldier to kill a young boy because the mother would not let the boy pose with Hitler for a photo op during a Nazi parade. Then, the soldier shot the mother.
