To See About A Guy by Surrendered Press

Author:Surrendered Press
Language: eng
Format: epub

Refugee Camp

We left Sweden three weeks ago, and we’ve reached Frankfurt. I don’t think we’ll ever reach Switzerland. The war is going badly for the west as the Russians keep pummeling our cities with missiles. So far they’re using conventional weapons only, but it’s having a huge effect on morale.

The Americans have joined the war effort in earnest, but it seems we’re not making much progress. Most major European capitals had been bombed so badly that it would take decades to rebuild them. Worse, a continent where three generations of citizens had never witnessed war, was in shock, paralyzed and unable to react with the necessary force to stop the attacks. Instead, politicians, while officially declaring war and alerting the military, were still talking about peace, diplomacy and that no military solution could prevail.

Meanwhile, Russia had more or less reconquered much of its former Soviet empire, plus all of Scandinavia. We had been lucky to escape when we had.

A few days after having left Puttgarden, we were picked up by the German Red Cross, and they transported us here to this refugee camp in Frankfurt. It’s in a forest clearing near the airport. I can’t count how many times I’ve flown through Frankfurt to Switzerland to see family, or to the USA on business, visiting friends or other places in the world. It’s odd to recall sitting in the First Class lounge, drinking espresso, eating fine food, waiting to be driven to the plane by limo. Yet, we’re sitting here in a small tent among thousands of other tents.

Most other refugees have come from Denmark and from Eastern Europe. Open borders within the European Union allowed the Polish, Czech, Slovaks and Hungarians to flee before the Russian army took over their countries. The Polish army fought valiantly, I hear from our Polish neighbors, but to no avail.

Russia’s propaganda had paved the way for a new government, and Poland was, surprisingly, the first country to officially leave NATO, claiming it was its membership that had caused the Russian invasion in the first place, pointing to how Finland had fared only weeks earlier. The fact that Sweden had also been taken, despite not being a NATO member, had not been mentioned.

The Germans stand their ground for now, and so far, no Russian soldiers had crossed the border, not even into what was once the GDR. But Berlin was bombed to rubble, causing the government to evacuate to the former capital of Bonn in the west. Frankfurt, Munich and other major cities also suffered severe damage.

Next to us is a tent where an elderly couple from Hamburg found there refuge. They were both born in the nineteen thirties and have vivid memories of the allied bombings toward the end of World War II. They are completely broken, devastated as they had to witness such destruction twice in a life time. They lost their entire family in the bombings. Their daughter, her husband and their two grandchildren were all gone. And while the old

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