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Chapter 6

Peter Eberhardt and Jürgen Hahn

Inga Eberhardt knew that her son, Peter, was stubborn. But she could not fathom
what her son was becoming. There was a new side to him, after he was declared

suited for military service.

“Ahh, you don’t really spend any time with real men. You’ll end up being weird.
See to it, that you get married again, while you’re still young, instead of talking

about that boy.”

Olav Eberhardt, Inga’s father, was sitting at the dining table in the little, humble
living room. Pulsing on his pipe. He was counting the coins his daughter gave

him, while studying them at the same time. “I’m charge of the money in this
house. If anybody’s weird in this household – it’s you! Go out and fetch another

log of wood to the fireplace. We’re running out”

A few years ago, Ellen Eberhardt would have added a forbearing smile with her
remark. But the war, men in general, an increasing osteoarthritis in her back and

the fact that Inga, at a young age, became a widow, made her mother tough. With

a jolt, the elderly woman rose from the chair by the little fireplace. She stopped
at the table, and with a firm hand, she bashed on the coins that Olav just have laid

off. Olav Eberhardt look perplexed at his wife, while moving a bit backwards on

dining table chair.
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 Reichsmark," Ellen counted.

We thank you for that. Take the last coins with you, Inga. You have as much need

for them as we have."
Apart from the two coins that she handed to her daughter, the elderly woman

scraped the money and stuffed them into the pocket of the apron that she’d tied
to her waist.