Then you must leave. xxx Hans did. You could easily pass for a French girl. The soldier wanted to talk. My brother is dead. My father died when I was your age. They will probably kill me too.“ ‘My company commander will think I have deserted.” Hans had been struggling with French, so Ruth said to him in German, “Write a letter. She got into the train, and waved to him from a window as the train left. The resistance fighters fled to avoid the approach of more Germans. Ruth picked up a book with a black leather binding. My brother is dead.
