Stuka Pilot by Rudel Hans Ulrich

Author:Rudel, Hans Ulrich [Rudel, Hans Ulrich]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Black House Publishing Ltd
Published: 2011-05-26T17:00:00+00:00

I stop for a moment at the door of a barn and poke my head round the corner to investigate; the building yawns in my face. Nothing but emptiness. The place is stripped bare, no harness, no farm implements, no living creature – stay! – a rat darts from one corner to another. A large heap of maize leaves lie rotting in the barnyard. I grub amongst them with greedy fingers. If only I could find a couple of corn-cobs . . . or only a few grains of corn. . . But I find nothing. . . I grub and grub and grub . . . not a thing!

Suddenly I am aware of a rustling noise behind me. Some figures are creeping stealthily past the door of another barn: Russians, or refugees as famished as I am and on the self same quest? Or are they looters in search of further booty? I fare the same at the next farm. Here I go through the maize heaps with the greatest care – nothing. Disappointedly I reflect: if all the food is gone I must at least make up for it by resting. I scrape myself a hole in the pile of maize leaves and am just about to lie down in it when I hear a fresh noise: a farm wagon is rumbling past along a lane; on the box a man in a tall fur cap, beside him a girl. Where there is a girl there can be nothing untoward, so I go up to them. From the black fur cap I guess the man is a Romanian peasant. I ask the girl: “Have you anything to eat?” “If you care to eat this. . .” She pulls some stale cakes out of her bag. The peasant stops the horse. Not until then does it occur to me that I have put my question in German and have received a German answer. “How do you come to know German?”

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