It was quite amusing for Annie as some apartments were torn apart and you could look into the miserable households of other people. She had once lived in such a dejected flat, too, before her mother and father died.
She always pushed these depressing thoughts away as she didn’t want to break out in tears again.
Annie climbed up one of the ruins. She was looking for something to eat. She hadn’t eaten in days.
The last thing she ate was a can of expired trout which she had found in a shelf in a destroyed flat. The child hated fish, but her hunger made her forget about the taste. Animal-like she had gorged it.
Now she was on the hunt again.
Looking through the bricks and steel bars of the buildings, she was hoping to find something to eat.
It was when she walked into “Adenauer Strasse”, the street she once lived in when she had to think of her parents again. At first she didn’t even recognize the street where all kinds of workers had once lived and children played on the road with self-made footballs or other toys they had made out of sticks, but when she was standing in front of number 33, the building lived in before, she couldn’t move solidified.
Standing there, it all came back: the booming, the bunker and the hope for survival.
Only fear was in the air when a bomb landed right on top of them and the bunker collapsed. Annie had stood under the doorframe while everyone else was swarming in the room.
Everyone but her died. Everyone!
Voices made her escape the traumatizing thoughts.
“Russians”, she thought and hid behind a damaged brick wall.
Everyone knew that the Russians often didn’t hesitate to commit war crimes in Berlin such as rape.
The two men in the uniform with a red star on the left side over their hearts, sat down on the opposite side of Annie and one of them smashed a grated tin box on his left. It was a typical lunchbox of a soldier which all the reds were carrying. The box looked very old, it seemed like it had been in more countries than Annie could list, but it was still shiny.
It was getting darker and darker when suddenly someone screamed in another house. The soldiers jumped up, picked up their rifles and followed the high pitch voice which seemed so desperate for help.
The only thing they had forgotten was the box.
Driven by her hunger, Annie rushed to the neglected box. The smell of salami and bread came to her nose and before she could actually pick up the viands, she heard a Russian speaking voice behind her. Before Annie could turn around, she was hit with the barrel of a rifle.
Lying on the sandy ground, Annie saw the soldier pulling down his pants.
She knew what would happen…
It was all very fast and the girl started to shiver in fear and cried out.
As the soldier was about to start his barbarous interference with Annie, the girl fell unconscious.
When she awoke, she didn’t know how long she had been lying in the middle of the road and neither did she know what the man had exactly done to her body. She was just lying there.
Mentally the girl was already at her bounds and was totally burned out.
As she lay there feeling her stomach growling, she gave up all her hope and knew she was going to die…
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