- Contributed by听
- CSV Action Desk Leicester
- People in story:听
- Bowers
- Location of story:听
- Longeaton (Nottinghamshire)
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4371581
- Contributed on:听
- 06 July 2005
I was six and my sister was ten in September 1939. Shortly after the war started she became unwell and the doctor was called. He said she had a case of German measles whereupon I promptly fainted! It was only many years later that my family realised that the association of 'German' measles and the war against Germany was what had scared me - if the doctor had just referred to the illness as 'measles' I would have been fine. I thought they had literally invaded her body!
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