Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc writes: << It IS odd that Emil would have given you one version of the tale and me another, especially as he struck me as a very honest man. It is even odder that COL Nelson tells the tale the way I related it. Though neither Keller nor Nelson were eye-witnesses, Tink Ewald was there, in person, and told the tale to me, and to others, on many occasions -- and Tink, incidentally, was a founding member of the LHSA and remained a member until his death. If you wish, I can put you in touch with his sons, who will simply tell you the same story, with some embellishments which I have left out as being unnecessary to the basic story. No one denies that Else (again, please note the spelling) cycled out alone to meet the US forces but her contact with them was some hours after Dumur had flown the Swiss flag over the plant which had cauised the problem for the advancing US forces. >> ================= No argument. I was quoting exactly from Keller's book. Look it up. In print he attributes the saving of Wetzlar to Else's convincing the authorities not to resist and her contact with the advancing U.S. forces. He spells Else as "Elise" and never mentions Dumur flying the Swiss flag. I got that from other sources. It is my experience that many war recollections, including my own, get embellished over the years and after 50 years it is difficult to separate truth from imagination. If you listen to my stories of the Korean War, you would think I fought it single handed. Larry Z