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I was walking to the Meissen market from my house on the bank of the Elbe river to get food for my family when I saw German troops walking down the hill. “Finde alle Juden! Wir werden jeden töten, der heute nicht deutsch ist!” The Commander said.
I don’t understand German that much so I carried on walking my down to Meissen. When I was coming back to my house the same troops came marching by and the commander said, “Diese Christen hatten keine Chance!”.
They all laughed at that comment. When I was on the bank there was a weird silence that I’ve never heard before. So, I got worried and I walked in a faster pace. When I got into my house, it was a wreck. I went into my room and I saw my whole family on the bed shot dead and lying next to
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When I climbed the tree I found that there was already something that had lived up there even before the war. A couple of days later I found a Nazi truck stuck in the mud, the driver was trying to get it out of the mud but he had no luck. I saw that he went off to try and get help from the other Nazis, so I snuck into the truck and I saw that it had bombs and TNT in it. I took as much as I can take (which was a lot I had to hide the rest of it when I was taking it to my tree …show more content…
“I’m going to trust you, but if something does happen, I'm going to run into the woods with you” he said hesitantly. “Ok you can try to come if something does happen but just don't be so superstitious about it, capish?” I

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