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I was a child when war broke out but I can really remember it. I can remember my mother being in the room, we where listening to the radio and everybody was terribly upset. The sirens went on the first day and we all rushed down to my aunts who had an air raid shelter. We all sat there in this air raid shelter and of course it was a false alarm. Our school was closed for a while as the evacuees were coming in. My mother was taking me into town and as we walked into the station there were men who had dug a trench for the electricity or the water. All of a sudden they pulled us down into their trench as a German plane went overhead very low and I remember seeing the swazstickers. The plane went on to machine gun people on Parliament Street. We could have been in that but we were lucky — we decided not to go into town. It’s a memory that always stays with me.

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