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Pots and Pans 10/19/2005 10:53:46 AM
Pots and Pans
When a woman needs some new cooking utensils now, it's no big deal to go the any Wal-mart or even a big grocery store and buy whatever is needed. In 1946 my parents faced a different challange. We had survived WWII and escaped the Communist occupation of eastern Europe. When we got to west Germany we had nothing, only the clothes on our backs. And Germany was in shambles. If you go to my other blog on the link below, in the center picture, the one of me sitting by the table with those utensils on it tells the story. My mother needed pots and pans to cook with, even if it was only wild greens she picked in the fields. Where to get them! My father searched the countryside for cast off military hardware, metals of any kind. Mostly he was looking for aluminum because that was easiest for him to work with in his home-made forge. He made those pots and pans on the table with metal gotten from downed airplanes. He made all that we needed. Then made more, which he traded to other people for food stuff. That's how we survived. That story is in chapter 10 of By Hands of Strangers.
