Berlin, September 1947
Berlin, September 1947Lotte’s oldest sister Ursula had married this past spring and moved out of the apartment to live with her husband, Tom. Mother and Father, the latter who’d returned a wreck last fall after four years in Russian captivity, had left the horrible living conditions in Berlin and moved to Bavaria.
Now only Lotte and her second sister Anna remained in Berlin. But Anna was so occupied with her work, and her husband, she barely had time for Lotte, even before she became pregnant. While Lotte didn’t begrudge her sisters their happiness, she often felt lonely and abandoned.
It didn’t help that her friends at university urged her to move on and live her life. Their words nagged at her head and heart.
The war’s over and you’re young, you have to enjoy y
