«The whole of Berlin was a ruin, there was nothing to eat or keep warm,» recalls Mrs. Brockschmidt, a retired professor at Canisius College in Berlin, the college where she studied and where she later dedicated her life to work as a secondary school teacher. «In the morning there were classes, in the afternoon we worked on the reconstruction of the school, which had been destroyed by the bombing: some made mortar, others laid bricks and others made charcoal with the little wood and branches that we managed to collect, to light the stove. the next day». This grim post-war school routine was further intensified in the summer of 1948, when the Soviet authorities placed the western part of the divided city under a blockade to… See More
