The Hours After: Letters of Love and Longing in War’s Aftermath

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The love letters of Gerda and Kurt Klein, revealing some of the greatest love stories ever told.

Over fifty years ago, Gerda Weissmann was once barely alive at the end of a 350-mile death march that took her from a slave labor camp in Germany to the Czech border. On Would possibly 7, 1945, the American military stormed the area, and the first soldier to approach Gerda was once Kurt Klein. She guided him to her fellow prisoners who lay ill and dying at the ground, and quoted Goethe: “Noble be man, merciful and good.” In all probability it was once her irony, her composure, her evident compassion within the face of tragedy, that struck Kurt Klein. A perfect love had begun. Forced to separate just weeks after liberation and hours after their engagement, Gerda and Kurt started a correspondence that lasted until their reunion and wedding in Paris a year later. Their poignant letters reflect upon the horrors of war and genocide, but above all, upon the rapture and salvation of true love.

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