Interview with Ingrid Dennull

Interview with Ingrid Dennull

Ingrid Dennull reminisces about her wartime experiences in Berlin, and then as an evacuee and teacher in East Prussia. She recounts various episodes related to the Dresden attack and its aftermath: seeing  the target indicators from a distance, dubbed “Christmas trees”, falling over Dresden; evacuees lodged in schools and farms; mentions people from Wroclaw and Silesia among the casualties; she, herself, hiding in a barnhouse together with other women from Russian troops. Ingrid remembers various episodes from wartime Berlin: blackout measures; disposing of incendiary bombs; food rationing; strictly opposing entering the League of German Girls; disruption of train lines; her time spent in a shelter; a friend of hers being killed in an air attack at the end of the war in Potsdam. She gives a vivid account of her trip from Dresden back to Berlin. Ingrid also talks about her father, a member of the Confessioning Church, serving in the military postal service in France and elsewhere. She talks about how many people she knew who privately opposed Hitler but publicly supported him. She recalls her life and time as a teacher in postwar Berlin.

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2018-06-18

01:34:49 audio recording

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