1:30:01
I knew that since the whoIe viIIage...
1:30:04
...aIso knew they were coming,
they wouId aII be at the station...
1:30:07
...and my schooI friends wouId see me...
1:30:11
...and my brother and sister,
meeting our parents...
1:30:14
...for the first time in five years.
1:30:20
It was a tremendous ordeaI.
1:30:22
We went down to the station to wait.
1:30:25
And I couIdn´t cope with it.
1:30:27
So I went back...
1:30:30
...home and I said:
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"´I´m going home.
I´m going to put the kettIe on.
1:30:34
"´They´II need a cup of tea."´
How EngIish can you get?
1:30:38
l waited and waited and waited.
1:30:41
They took ages.
1:30:43
SuddenIy, there´s my brother and sister...
1:30:46
...with this middIe-aged, eIderIy coupIe...
1:30:49
...with suitcases and bags,
coming up the path.
1:30:53
I remember rushing down to meet them.
1:30:58
l knew they were my parents...
1:31:00
...but they weren´t
the same parents l´d left.
1:31:03
They were much older
and they were worn out.
1:31:06
And we obviously weren´t
the same children...
1:31:09
...that they´d sent off.
1:31:12
Suddenly l realized l couldn´t say anything
except their names.
1:31:15
´´Mommy and Daddy´´ or ´´Mutti and Papa. ´´
1:31:18
Then we just stood there...
1:31:21
...Iooking at each other.
1:31:26
It was such...
1:31:28
...a traumatic moment.
1:31:30
It was sad for Inge because
she couIdn´t speak German anymore.
1:31:34
My brother spoke it with difficuIty.
1:31:37
I was the onIy one
who couId communicate with them.
1:31:40
But the barriers compIeteIy went...
1:31:42
...and we became a family again.
1:31:48
The cease-fire began yesterday,
to be sounded...
1:31:52
...along all the fronts.
1:31:55
The German war is therefore at an end.