Hello Christoph,
While these reports don't have an answer about Dad, they do confirm your ideas on the River Sieg.
Report stated: "The river Sieg is not very deep and could be crossed at certain points without bridges especially close to the mouth where it is not more than three feet deep."
Maybe with the maps from Dan Raymond Dad's escape route will become clearer You know it is an interesting thought, Dad had been out of the Abbey/Camp a few times plus an additional 22 times to take the deceased men to the Cemetery where he buried them. He emphasized the distance to the Cemetery was quite a distance. He had to go down the long hill he said and we drove around with him to try to figure it out. And as I have mentioned, we failed to find the Cemetery or any marker. If the Cemetery was near the Autobahn, and he knew that path, maybe that was the direction he fled. Ah hah, from the Abbey, so high up, they could tell where there were large amounts of buildings and where there were not. Maybe see paths and lights, if ever on.
Oh well, I must get going, gosh I have so many things I could work on with the research. I think I will call KF from the road today just to say hello and stay in touch!
How I would love to talk to some of those men that had knowledge of the Abbey. I will bring, whenever that is, large maps for you of the new ones, and of the Abbey so we can maybe with the Sister's help figure out where Theo would have lived, and the others, where she lived, and oh so many
things.
I wonder if I could get the gal I met that is associated with the Abbey to let us all go down into what was the basement and other places in the building. I want to feel what it was like for Dad to run from the barracks below tending the men and then upstairs to where KF was located and I think there was another Allied hospital section too. And where was the Morgue, etc.
Now back to the current world, but with you Christoph the past is coming more alive!
Bye for the moment,
Jean J