Christoph, I went to the above alangrano website and after looking at the beautiful presentation I decided to google alangrano.
It appears Alan Grano has a business and a website and I could sign on to it, but I am concerned about doing that. There is a site that does not require you to be on facebook etc. but I want to check it out before I sign up. If I can do that, I would like to see if he has additional notes or information on his Dad.
The story sounds familiar (in the basement) but all of the parts about Siegburg do not. I will ask Norton about it as well. When I was with Norton, I asked Norton what did they talk about when they talked. And Norton said Food! And they made up all kinds of crazy recipes.
It is so easy to get the stories and data a little mixed up. When I was working on getting my papers better organized (huge task), I have already seen a few things that I have written that were not quite accurate and will one day correct or do so now.
One of those was that Norton never saw or heard of a Gidrie. It was my Dad that talked to Norton and the group of them and said he was going to escape. And it was then that Dad showed him the gun.
I have in my notes the VD story that I mentioned above. But I told it incorrectly. After 2 days and 1 night (the debriefing period) they were sent to a hospital in a VD Ward (in Aachen). They learned that because someone came in and all of a sudden the 4 other men in the Ward (the Ward was for 6) got up and bent over for injection. Dad knew then it was VD. They had to stay there that night until beds could be found in a regular ward with war wounded people. The VD guys would go back to jail/tank after cured because they would have had a sentence because not supposed to mess around and VD shows broke the law.
I asked Dad what about the men's military records and he said it would be on there forever. If so, I bet some were happy when the records all burned in St. Louis.
Thank you again for helping me so much!!!
I will make a file for A. Grano, so sad he is deceased.
Jean J