by Lucy Sullivan
A Christmas television program several years back was a documentary of events on Christmas Eve 1944, the last Christmas of World War II. It recounted, among other stories, the bombing of a small village in northern Germany that, until then, had been almost untouched by the war. The story was told by three now elderly offspring of a prosperous farmer, children at the time, whose house was demolished in the air raid.
They had survived by sheltering in the root cellar, but a …
