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Note: Fischerhude in WW-2
In WWII there were several anti-aircraft emplacements around Bremen, and sometimes they were successful. Shot airplanes with bombs mostly crashed down into the surrounding moor, next to Fischerhude. I was told, the Dierk Mueller tombstone was taken away from churchyard because of heavily damage by shots from an airplane. That war time, aircrafts shot on moving targets, and this tombstone was located close to the main road. As I was told, there are tombstones of ancestors of Dierk Mueller. The Mueller was a very large and old family and each in Fischerhude was related with a Mueller sometime.
May be interesting for you: you should read what happened in Fischerhude at the end of WWII, written by eye-witnes Bertha Monsees. I translated-transformed it in English.
Greetings from Bremen Roland
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bertha Monsees, Quelkhorn wrote about the end of WWII in Fischerhude area: at April 29, 1945; it was Sunday.
In the early morning, the English troops started shooting the Quelkhorn anti-aircraft emplacement, and sent their tanks in the direction of Quelkhorn. The 9 German soldiers of the emplacement withdrawed.
But there was the "Volkssturm", the last ditch stand, a military group consisting of boys and grandfathers. They were told by propaganda, that it would be easy to stop and destroy tanks; and therefore, in the morning they felled some pines, and placed them crossways over the street as an obstacle. Each boy had an antitank rocket launcher, each grandfather had a rifle, nothing else. But they did not wear a military uniform, therefore they could not be regarded as legal soldiers, and the English would shot them to death at once as snipers.
Fortunately in this momentum, the miller Heinrich Kramer from Quelkhorn came out of his house, and he saw what was going on there with that last ditch stand, and he knew what may happen to them soon. Therefore he shouted very aloud to refrain them from nonsense, to throw away all arms at once, and better go to church service straightaway. Some Quelkhorn women heard his aloud shouting and came out running, and started complaining the grandfathers louder than ever in their life; the boys were taken home by their mother's very strong hand.
Same day at lunchtime of April 29, 1945 the local Nazi mayor with deputies fled Fischerhude and Quelkhorn. Same day in the afternoon of April 29, 1945 the farmers and the artists met in the Fischerhude parish hall, each family was represented by one member at least. Meanwhile 15 scattered German soldiers fled into the parish hall asking for help. The Fischerhude pastor was with them and they all prayed together.
When the first English soldiers were be seen through the window, only the pastor went out and he came back with an English officer, who at first declared the waiting German soldiers POWs. Next, Fischerhude pastor promised in the name of Fischerhude and of Quelkhorn, that there would be no more fighting against English troops. And all present people in the parish hall agreed. That minute, the war was over for Fischerhude and Quelkhorn people, and it was the end of Nazi dictatorship in Fischerhude and Quelkhorn.
The English soldiers left Fischerhude safe and sound same day in the early evening of April 29, 1945. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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