German soldiers in Paris, 1941; cinemas

REX building with painted sign: “REX DEUTSCHES SOLDATENKINO”. This is a cinema for German soldiers in German-occupied Paris. People walk by marketplace stalls. “LA VACHE QUI RIT.” Pont au Change of the Conciergerie. A truck, a horse-drawn carriage and pedestrians move across the bridge. Théâtre de la Ville: “Châtelet.” Notre-Dame de Paris. Statue in the Place de Clichy. “Gillette” building displays sign: “Soldatenheim lese-und schreibzimmer.” Gaumont cinema on Rue Caulaincourt. Le Moulin de la Galette in Montmartre, Paris. A street lined with trees. Woman steps out with two dogs. She holds one in her arms. Mercedes-benz military truck on a rural road across a bridge. Cars follow in the distance. “ENDE” Hans Wolfgang Lindemann (a German) married Ethel McGloclin (an American) in Philadelphia in 1929. He had come to the US looking for work, but had a strong German family heritage and served in the German army in WWI as a radio operator. After his father died, the couple moved to Germany (Braunschweig), toured Europe, and started a family (Oda b. 1934 and Karin b. 1936). Wolfgang joined the German reserve as he found that the least difficult way to protect himself and his family. He worked in a truck factory which was vital to the German war effort. Later, he became a Wehrmacht captain as an automotive engineer. He was discharged in November 1944 and later became a prisoner of war of the Americans in France. Wolfgang's two brothers also served in the German military in WWII. Ethel raised their two girls in a small farming town in Germany. She exchanged letters with Wolfgang as well as with her brother who was serving in the US Army. She kept a diary in English during the war period. In 1946, Ethel and the girls returned to the United States (Oda was 12 and lives in Philadelphia; Karin died in 1976 at age 40).