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A Gnostic Childhood
in Salla, Finland which is close to Murmansk and died of his wounds in
a military "Lazarett" after a few days of intense suffering. Before his
death he was awarded the Finish "Freiheits Medallie" (Freedom
medal) by General Mannerheim. My mother told me that he had a
quite expensive Kodak camera with him which was never returned to
her, because it was stolen by the very "comrades" for which he gave
up his chance to become an officer. Although General Mannerheim is
still honored and revered in Finland, we have never received any
recognition or even kind words from Finland. My mother also told me
that they named a small bridge after him which is located in Salla. I
don't know whether this bridge is still there bearing our name or
whether in the years after the war, when Germany became a "pariah,"
the "Haffke Bruecke" was re-named again.
My mother and father in the "Maerkische" forest surrounding Schwerin
in 1939 before I was born and before the the outbreak of World War
II. A peaceful scene that should soon be disrupted by the war and the
subsequent shipment of my father and his unit to Norway and Finland
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