Recollections of Anna (Fiance to Hans Bothmann)

[Leutnantzursee]

Miss Bothmann - I've only just caught up with your personal thread (I'm really enjoying back-reading old posts at the moment :-) ) You were Austrian too - why didn't you say!!LOL OMG I remember the Auchluss too, it was one of the memories i retrieved under hypnosis, I completely relate to the excitement you felt, I wonder if I was in Vienna that day? Maybe we passed each other in the street, wouldn't that be cool? :-) So many vivid memories, the one in the shop sticks out for me, maybe I saw something like that over the Reichmarks, though I never knew about the currency issues, it may have been a common problem? You and Hans certainly were in love and I so understand the thing with Hans' anger, I still carry so much of Emil's rage, but as a female in this life it tends to morph into depression, that and the guilt of course :-( I've really enjoyed reading your memories and its nice to know more about Anna :-)

[gumby]

I was also in Vienna during the war, I was there to entertain wounded soldiers. Here in Vienna I was caught up in love and passion for a few days with a soldier I met at the theater. We made love in a hotel and we danced and embraced by the river by the dim street lights, he held me close that night. He left the next day for the Russian front, and I to never see him again.

[Miss Bothmann]

lizzie: So sorry that I haven't replied before now, but there has been so much chaos on the home front. Things have finally settled down now. Yes, I suppose it was a possibility that we passed each other on the street. I cannot help but smile whenever I remember the Anschluss. About the money issue: I do not know if it was a common problem or not, but this guy wanted absolutely nothing to do with the money. My feeling is that he was obviously anti-Reich. Hans was having none of it though..LOL. I know that it is not supposed to be funny, but it really is in a way. I guess you had to be there.

gumby: One night or not, the passion is what mattered then. My God the whole city was alive with parties and passion and every other frenzied feeling (at least from where I was)