大象传媒

Sunday,29th.April,1945. Weather dull.
Rumours are heard that Russians are heading
in this direction.(I wish that they would come soon. Heard that Himmmler had capitulated to Western Powers. Mussolini
captured in Milan.Berdesgarden destroyed by
12,000 bombs. The forces of the United Nations had met S.W.of Berlin. Is it really
the ending ? Made several good meals-clear
evening.
Monday,30th.April-showery weather.
Allied aircraft straffing in the area.Warned
to be ready to move at short notice.Russians
must be heading tis way. Many people getting
excited-sometimes,I wish I could get excited
over the news,instead of remaining so little
unaffected.There seems to be a feeling of
apprehension, almost panic amongst the German guards,that they will fall into the
hands of the Russians!!We received an issue
of half of a Red Cross food parcel in the
morning and again in the afternoon. How are we going to carry all this stuff? We were ordered to leave the farm at 17.45,and I
decided to "acquire" a wheelbarrow,on which
Douglas and I loaded our kits,and this allowed us to make good speed. Some of the
villages, through which we raced,seemed to
have similar names to those we had marched
through only a few days before,and that I had noted in my diary. It only gradually
struck me that the March had reversed direction-we were travelling WEST,towards the British lines. The German guards wanted to be taken prisoner by Btitish or American troops .

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