By Alan Rowlands
In April 1945 a gaggle of bedraggled, weary German prisoners of battle landed at Tilbury after being captured over the last days of the conflict. They have been dispersed to felony camps all through England, and one among their quantity, a burdened 22-year-old veteran of a few of the most harsh stipulations and toughest battles skilled by way of the German forces, stumbled on himself in south-east Lancashire. His identify was once Bernhard Carl Trautmann, later to turn into well-known as Bert. This booklet is the full tale, from his youth in Bremen the place he used to be born and raised within the seething political weather of the Twenties, his involvement with the Hitler adolescence stream and notable warfare stories, to his frequently hilarious internment at prisoner of warfare Camp 50, until eventually his signing through Manchester urban in 1949 amid a barrage of controversy and prejudice. Trautmann ran the gauntlet of racial hatred to develop into, absolutely, one of many maximum goalkeepers ever obvious. He performed in successive FA Cup Finals, 1955 and 1956, the latter yr bringing him into global concentration whilst he sustained a damaged neck. but he persevered within the online game. inside of weeks of that tumbler ultimate he suffered extra appalling own tragedy, amid turmoil in his domestic lifestyles, as he fought to regain his health. The publication has been up to date to incorporate information of the Trautmann beginning and Trautmann’s OBE.
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Bernhard was not allowed to return to Bremen for a visit. He wrote once a week to Frieda and Carl, noting a brief outline of his activities, and received from his parents an equally brief letter in reply. He was not missing his home or parents at all. His comradeship with the boys was close and meaningful, while his relationship with Henning and his wife was warm and fulfilling. The most unpopular part of life proved to be kitchen duty. This mainly consisted of peeling potatoes or cleaning tiles and stoves.
Bernd, aged seven and unhappy in a sailor suit at Burger Park, Bremen. Inevitably, inflation and the downturn in the economy meant the cost of houses became an overwhelming financial burden. Early in 1932 the Trautmanns moved three kilometres away, to a home in Wisch Husen Straße in Gröpelingen. The flat, at the top of the apartment block containing four other families, was rented from Bremen Council and, although having its own bathroom and toilet, Frieda had to accept it as a big reduction in their circumstances.
Again, the top floor of a council home did not meet her expectations for her family due to her middle-class expectations. After a few months a larger flat in the house became vacant and they were able to move down a floor, but Frieda never came to terms with uprooting from Walle into the working-class area. Gröpelingen, at the time, was not a particularly ugly area. Indeed, the whole city of Bremen, stretching 34 kilometres or so, was known as a city of low-rise buildings and was surrounded by a flat, agricultural countryside.