An account of Lilo Dreyfeldt

V Today is Sept.3, 2018, The beginning of World War II with Germany's invasion of Poland and the declaration of war on Hitler's Germany by England and France. Today just a little while ago I received a telephone call by Geraldine Reichl/Berlin/Achilles Srasse 2 that Lilo Hein, my distant cousin, close friend of my beloved Brother Dieter, had crossed the bridge from this planet to the other part of the universe. Are they celebrating a reunion between them and many other people. I and also Marlene, my spouse for some 66 years, admired and loved her. We were very close. I knew Lilo since the 1930's when she visited us briefly in Osteroe/East Prussia visiting her relatives in Gilgenburg/Kreis Osterode. She was a beasutiful and charming teenager. You had to admire and love her. From that time on especially my brother Dieter and myself continued to be in touch with Lilo. Actually during World war 2 Dieter and Lilo thought about getting married. Lilo suggested to wait until the end of the war. My dear brother Dieter died in a plane crash in Tromsoe/Norway on Feb. 23, 1943. Only a few weeks befor his death Dieter, Lilo and myself spent some vacation time - Dieter was recuperating from another crash- and myself in GarmischPartenkirchen. That was the last time that Lilo and I saw Dieter for the last time. During the entire war Lilo and myself kept in touch. Lilo changed her ideological thinking from believing that NationalSocialism and Adolf Hitler were good for Germany to becoming antiNazi, i.e. against Adolf Hitler and became attached to the student resistance group, called Edelweiss. Leader of that group were caught and sentenced to death. Lilo was arrested and had to stand trial. Through a good fortune by accidentally meeting over lunch before the trial the judges who were judging her, she got aways with a short prison sentence and a dishonorable expulsion from Munich University. Her name is enshrined in the Reistance Museum in Berlin. After the war she returned to her beloved Berlin of which one