“Before we came to Göttingen, I was often moved by the question: How can I know which of the people I meet is a murderer? This now seemed less and less relevant to me. So were z. For example, the students who lived in our dormitory were all children “back then”. We made friends with Uli Justus, whose father died shortly after his release from American captivity as a result of hunger and cold, and with Irene Hoerner, his then 18-year-old girlfriend and later wife, whose father had died in Stalingrad; didn’t they have to hate the war at least as much as we and the Nazis as well? Who else did we know? In Jeremy’s class was the son of the director of the Protestant librarianship school, who, as an officer on the Eastern Front, had refused an order and had only just gotten away with his life. Daniel made friends with the only boy in his class with whom he could communicate in French. They are still close friends. His father, Karl-Heinz Tolle, an organ builder, had met his French wife Marcelle in France after he was released from captivity. Many years later he showed me his diary from the war, which showed his critical stance on the war and the Nazi regime. In Göttingen we got to know people from all walks of life, including Ms. Rehbein, the house cleaning lady who was proud of the social democratic tradition of her family and who had secretly carried out alteration work for a Jewish clothing company when it had long since been banned. We still hang out with her son and daughter-in-law today. "
Source: Wilma and Georg Iggers, Zwei Seiten der Geschichte. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002, p. 155 (translation)