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Heute treffen wir Bernd.
Bernd gab dem Team ein paar Äpfel.
Viel Spaß beim Interview.
So I’m Bernd Münzer, in Hausen vor Wald, a part of Hüfingen.
I’m 71 years old, and …
Yes, I feel quite at home here.
I was born in Karlsruhe, that’s in Baden-Württemberg.
And through last world war I came here to Hausen vor Wald, 
to my aunt’s and uncle’s, who raised me during the war.
And, my mother was interned in Strasbourg, by the French, and was
taken to a camp in Rennes, where she had to work for three years.
With three other brothers of mine, yes.
I can remember well how I came here early in the morning.
My father had to get on the train at 4 pm, since …
Donaueschingen is the nearest town around here,
that’s where he was registered by the military.
And that’s where he had to turn himself in.
That is he was drafted into war, again.
And the train left at 4 pm, and we had to, me and
my aunt and uncle, dig up potatoes out there in the field.
And I was wearing such short pants,
that was on October 22, ’44.
Tears were flowing out of my pants, then.
I was that homesick.
Well, I’ve grown up anyway, but …
That was bad, yet.
When were out in the fields all the work was done by hand.
Sometimes when the uncle wasn’t there or was off somewhere else …
Then you would lie down in the grass and look up at the sky, and 
eventually the day you would see an airplane, and you would think:
Aviator, that would be the job. But …
Impossible, you know?
It wouldn’t work. Today you could fight it out.
Back then you either got a smacked bottom …
Or if not, all hell broke loose.
To answer a senior back wasn’t possible.
That was simply breeding and, yes. And, I also didn’t want to let
down the old people, you understand? That was the problem:
What do I do? I’ve learned agriculture and all,
what’s been expected, yes?
But, I never would have left them alone. Right?
My uncle was 90 years old when he passed away, and my
aunt got 88, right? And those were old people, and …
And also my wife – hats off to her – the older people
were never in a nursing home or …
That didn’t exist. Like today, “Off!”, right?
I wouldn’t say, so today I’d …
Sometimes, I think back and wish back the time. Just, I’d do a few
things different, jobwise maybe. But back then you were young, and …
Yes, it was just: “Work, work, work.” That was it, right?
And …
Yes, it were just decisive moments. Life has shaped you. And if you’d
respected your elders a little bit, then you were almost brought up.
