JAMESTOWN, N.C. (WGHP) — It’s hard today to understand the desperation that existed in so much of the world at the end of World War II.
Few people felt it like a young German woman who had gotten pregnant in the summer of 1945 by an American soldier. Two weeks after meeting that soldier, he was gone. Two weeks after that, the young German woman found out she was pregnant.
“On Feb. 6, 1946, I was born at the Marienhospital in Darmstadt,” said Elke Weber from her home in Jamestown. “And the nuns asked her, ‘What are you doing with your baby?’ She said, ‘I cannot keep it,’ so I was put in an orphanage.”…