Made in Germany
Annegret Ogden experienced VE-Day as a child in Germany. At the University in Munich, she met her American husband, a fellow student, and accompanied him to Berkeley, CA. Now retired from her work as a librarian at the University of California, she has written for The Californians, and is the author of The Great American Housewife. She was a founder of The Kensington Ladies’ Erotica Society and her stories have appeared in their three books: Ladies’ Own Erotica; Look Homeward, Erotica; and, Sex, Death and Other Distractions.
An Evening with Frieda Gordon Dilloo
“I was born in 1939 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in southern Germany. For the first 7 years of my life my family lived in Namlos, a small, remote village high in the Tyrolean Alps. 13 houses, a dangerous road, not a single motorized vehicle in the village. By age six, I knew all about avalanches and haying, but little about life in the big city. Food was scarce anyway, but especially at the end of the War. But at least I didn’t have to run into bomb shelters every night like so many of my age-mates had to do if they lived in the cities.