Free Writing 11

In the year 1943 Friedrich Steiner (a little polite seven year old kid) lived with his family in Steinbrechergasse, Berlin. He had a sister three year older named Anna, a 45 year old mother named Barbara, and the main person of their family, his father. He was 42 year old, named also Friedrich (it is a long tradition in their family) and worked for the German SS-army. He had been promoted to a storm-officer. That means that the fuehrer had visited their house already and personally wished him luck for his new career. Friedrich junior had no idea who the fuehrer is. His father told him that he should be really polite and do the “best special handshake” with him (raising his arm straight in the air). But he was close laughing when he first saw the fuehrer, because he had a really strange moustache and haircut. For him it seemed like this was the most important day in his dad’s life. Everything had to be perfect and this wasn’t the first time that his boss was having dinner in the house. On those days, things had to be good, but not like that evening. For Friedrich junior this whole new life was not a big change, because he could stay at the same house in Berlin, and go to the same public school (the Beethoven-Gymnasium) in Berlin...