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Ilse McKee was born Ilse Heimerdinger in Altenburg in Germany early in 1922. At the time Germany was still economically depressed and so it continued through much of Ilse’s childhood. Germany was forced to pay massive war reparations to the Allied forces that beat her into surrender in 1918. It is worth noting that since the German Fascist debacle we rebuild countries after their defeat in war instead of demanding war reparations from them.
In due course the 1930’s Great Depression, took down the global stock markets adding to the problems of war reparation impoverished Germany. Many ruined stockbrokers in the USA reputedly escaped the Great Depression’s worst effects via the drastic solution of committing suicide. It seems reasonable to suppose that the Great Depression impacted more heavily on the already struggling ordinary people of Germany than it did on those in Great Britain or the United states of America.
Poised socially between the poor and the rich, Ilse saw personally how Germany’s economic problems worked out at several levels of the social hierarchy. Ilse tells us about these social divides in this book.
During Ilse’s childhood Adolf Hitler came to power. Initially things improved but then as the effects of his ideologically extreme policies worked out catastrophically, she literally walked her own “Pilgrim’s Progress” through the carnage. Ilse presents us with a first hand account of what this carnage was like. All her romantic and family plans were fatally shattered several times during these doom-laden years.
Like ‘Icarus’ and John, her first husband, Ilse flies high, stalls and comes down in flames but she does not crash: she gets through, to tell us her story...
Having been made to first do “forced labour” cleaning Russian Army Barracks using quick-lime,then getting chemically burned by the quick-lime as a result and then worse, also getting pestered by a Russian Officer despite her burns, Ilse decided to “vote with her feet”. Ilse became a refugee and detailes how she walked out of the Russian Zone, across Joseph Stalin’s “Iron Curtain” and into West Germany.
There she met her long-term partner, a British soldier. They eventually had five children together and he went on to lead the search for the wreck of King Henry VIII’s Mary Rose.
