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Willi is about 19 here

Wilhelmshafen

End of the Wilhelmshaven chapter: dismissal terms, lodgings with Frau Stoll, and the naval harbour, c. 1925

Diary page 26

Translated from Willi's German.

...refusing to work, be dismissed for a certain eight days. Closing time was eight o'clock, but in the letter three o'clock had been agreed. The sufficient ground, the suspicion, would then no longer be mentioned. I now lay on the street for fourteen days before taking up the post in Bremen. I had secured that position, before giving notice, by presenting myself in person. For eight days I now stayed on with my excellent landlady Frau Stoll and her foster-daughter Lina. In all that time I was at home with these people. We played games and amused ourselves. I also got my brother Adolf the position, though I still saw him as rather distant. The boss too had a daughter, with whom I could have gone out. The staff were: two gentlemen and two ladies, and Herr... Of amusements I saw as good as none; all the more, then, did I gaze at the splendid naval harbour, the warships and the North Sea. In the former Imperial shipyard lay the nearly finished cruiser. The journeymen's hostel was quite pleasant.

People: Willi Distel, Frau Stoll, Lina, Adolf

Places: Wilhelmshaven, Bremen, Nordsee

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