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At the end of the war, my Father was serving in the Intelligence Corps, rounding up Nazis and important figues in the area of Schleswig Holstein and the Island of Sylt. He was part of the group who arrested Admiral Doenitz, the head of the German Navy. My Father wrote long, descriptive letters to my Mother telling her about this and his other experiences.

My mother took his letters to our local paper "The Sale and Stretford Guardian", and they printed a long article taken from his letters and including my Father's photograph.

My Father was horrified when my Mother sent him a copy of the paper and the article. This was supposed to be secret intelligence and there was the whole story of Doenitz' arrest gazing up at him from our local paper!

My Father went on to write a novel based on his experiences in the war and for many years a painting of the Island of Sylt hung above our mantlepiece in Sale.

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