It was around lunch time, as a Helene Böck just on the stove and cooked. Suddenly, they heard the siren of the pilot alarm.
Haimhausen – she brought her son Eric and rushed him to the basement of their home in Munich Neuhausen. Erich Böck was at this time in July 1944, six years old. Today, he lives in Haimhausen, and still well remembered to the end of the war: “what I’ve experienced, you don’t forget. This could as well have happened yesterday.“
With his mother and him, six women and eight children waited a total of in the air-RAID shelter. Next to the house, an explosive bomb was placed. At the Moment of the Explosion can remember Böck exactly: “The window, pressed it out, dust everywhere from the bombs was,” he says. After about an hour, liberated neighbors, the women with their children. Erich Böck and his mother was offered a terrible picture: “the wall of The House was torn away. Our apartment was completely broken.“ In the bedroom of the parents, an octagonal Holy picture hung. “It was torn to shreds, but the image of Hitler, which hung in the kitchen, remained whole,” says Böck today.
The family had a photo, since his father Hans Böck since 1928, the Reichswehr as military musicians. After coming to power, the Reichswehr was accepted. “Therefore, my father had the image of Hitler, but he was everything else than a Nazi,” says Erich Boeck.
His mother took the photo and threw it in a rage, with the words: “Thou shalt be” on the rubble of the house. The observed block of the system maintenance. “The has reported it immediately,” says Böck. “About an hour later my mother had to take me by the Hand to the commandant’s office.” The use of a group leader made a Helene Böck in front of her son so she only trembled. Military force decomposition, he called her to Act. “I would not have been, then they would have arrested my mother for sure,” says Böck today.
To be allowed to this time, men who were in the war to come, for a week home. However, because Helene Böck had dropped out of the picture to the pile of rubble, was Hans Böck is not to his family. As proof that Erich Böck and his mother were bombed out, they got damaged a support card for the homeless Flyer and 300 Reichsmarks.
In Munich, sought both refuge with an aunt of Erich Boeck. But when they got there, the house after a fire bomb in the flame. “About nine o’clock in the evening, my mother went with me on a bike to Marzling in the district of Freising,” says Böck. His mother was driving along the highway. Today is the state street, 2350. “We arrived there at three in the morning with my uncle.”
In Marzling had apartment the two until 1946. In the meantime, his father returned from the war. Together they moved in 1946 to Haimhausen, where Erich Böck lives until today.
