Here is where it gets interesting! Thank you SO much for the information!
My father goes by the surname of Usov. I asked him about why he chose this name. This is what he told me: He said that when he was working at H&H Eggers....he was working in a large building...(I think from memory its was Lizt...or somethingsounding like that)he got leave one day to be able to go and watch a movie. When he came back...all the Germans had left the town and left all the supplies. He went upstairs to the radio room and turned it on and found out that the russians and the american forces were coming.
Apparently he was under instruction as they all were, that if the other armed forces came into town the bridge was to be blown up. Father chose not to follow orders thank God.
He also found all the supplies they had left in the building...huge amounts off food and army cigarettes. he took a box of them and asked the cook (who I think might have been Anna Kozlova)...to take some of his clothes for size and to go and find a tailor to make him an austrian set of clothes complete with a hat. They were made and he he then went out in them and found the person in the town in charge of the passport section. This man apparently had a HUGE moustache. One of those ones that drop down and then curl up at the ends.
Dad explained his story about who he really was and then gave the man another name to use for his passport, He apparently explained that he wanted to go under the polish version of that name and village as it would be safer. The official agreed to help him and also mentioned that if he had any other people who needed help to send them to him, along with any further cartons of cigarettes. He and Anna set about organising the food supplies so that people could come and have food. She was the cook apparently.
Please be aware that my father would most likely "officially" be very upset with me for discussing him and his information, yet "privately" happy that I have. He is married to a german lady and things are difficult between us at this time. My searched for history and the truth and my way of trying to help my father have been misconstrued by some members of the family who are not as awake as others are. I would ask that people do respect his privacy and ours. I want to share information about this courageous man who has been through so much and whom, I feel would in his heart like people to know the truth without it affecting him or us adversly. I am requesting benevolent outcomes around all of this for my Father whom I care deeply about.
I will shortly post some maps of his journey during those wartime years.
Thank you for helping me,
I am so grateful.
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