BEING A 12 YEAR OLD GERMAN BOY WHEN GERMANY WAS DEFEATED
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Interviewee name: RAYMOND ELIAS
Date of event: 1 Jan 1945
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Raymond was 12 when the Allied armies invaded Germany. There were reprisals and torture, and his foster father was arrested and beaten. He found himself begging for food from local farmers and then in a prison camp before being reunited with his real father, who lived for only a few months.
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