Interview with Wilma Iggers in Bielefeld, Germany, 2006.
This video is currently only available in German. Below you will find an English translation of the audio track.
“I got there in May and the job I was assigned to was the Merchant Navy. That means that I had to read the letters of the prisoners in Canadian camps and read them very carefully because certain things were not allowed through, e.g. complaints about the camp, that was not allowed. Otherwise the Germans would have taken revenge on Canadians in Europe. It had to - there couldn’t be any secret messages. The letters from Europe were also checked to see whether there were any messages that were of interest to the military intelligence or naval intelligence, for example there was a funny story: someone from Kiel wrote to the man in the camp that Uncle Hans had gone sailing with Aunt Elisabeth and that Aunt Elisabeth burned her butt in the process. That seemed a little improbable to me. I had to report that - there were certain folmulare for it and watch out what comes next. It came: Aunt Elisabeth is fine again and on May 17th. She goes sailing again with Uncle Hans. Yes - and that’s when we figured out that it was a ship called Elisabeth. There was also a Hans who was actually the captain of the ship and so we knew on which day this ship would be at sea again and we could torpedo that or something could be done with it.”