Wolfgang Bail had as a 6-Year-old from his home country to flee the Sudetenland. Until he was in Dachau, his new home, he had a real Odyssey.
As a 6-Year-old Wolfgang Bail from the Sudetenland had to flee. In Dachau, he found his new home. However, until he arrived there, he had a long Odyssey.
Dachau – The last thing Wolfgang Bail remembers when he thinks of his parents ‘ house in Peter forest, today, Petrovice, is the piano. The good piece in the parlour of the parental host house “Drei Linden”. At the beginning of 1946 where the Russians were quartered, interested immediately for the Piano. “They wanted to take it,” says Bail. But because “the door was too small, they have torn down a wall. That was the end of the house“.
a Little later the mother made it, together with the six-year-old Wolfgang, the two years younger sister and the grandmother to come on a Transport in the direction of the West. The Sudeten Germans home to the family history. For the family – the father was since 1945 in a prisoner of war – was the expulsion at the end but also a salvation. Because the end of the war in the Sudetenland was “no relief,” recalls Wolfgang Bail. He was still small, but got quite, “that all were afraid. Not only the Russians, but also against the Czechs“.
+ Wolfgang Bail had to leave in 1946, as a Boy, his home.
The first Station on the escape of the Bails was Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
First the mother tried to wait for the Russian prisoners father, but eventually – after the Episode with the piano was The first Station of the Bails should be Western Pomerania, therefore, in the summer of 1946 Mecklenburg- shortly thereafter, it went to Dresden. There, in September, was Bail enrolled in school for the first Time, as of today, 80-Year-old reported. Then the family reached the happy news that the father of now “as one of the First!” – released from captivity, and after Dachau was sent; there the former owner worked as a chef in Dulag.
The transit camp hut to the Roth, the had belongs to the complex of the Dachau concentration subcamp Allach and converted into a residential camp was based after the war, some 2,500 refugees from southern and especially Eastern Europe. Mother, grandmother, and children Bail were on the way, with a stop in Hof, where the little Wolfgang was then “enrolled in school for two days for the second Time”.
Wolfgang Bails family still hoped that in the Sudetenland return
In the autumn of 1946, and then the family met finally in Dachau again, Wolfgang was enrolled in the Dulag camp school “for the third Time”. But quickly was the Bails clear: “Here we stay!” Even if the parents, Wolfgang Bail says today, “as hoped, all of the Sudeten Germans for a long time, one day back in may back in the old country”.
In the Thoma school, then the little Wolfgang had finally found his school, fourth home. The family moved into an apartment in the Birgmannbräu, then at the restaurant Amper lust, which led his father from 1954 to 1974, a total of 20 years.
According to Peter woods, respectively, Petrovice, the family drove in the years to follow often; some relatives lived there. The former Inn of the Bails was here has long given way to a Parking lot.
In its first six years of life Wolfgang Bail remembers still like to have. “As a child, you see more of the adventure and less on the fear and desperation of the adults.”
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