I figured that Dorry was a literary reference, but didn’t know whether it was to Dorian Gray or Little Dorrit…
Moonshadow is an utterly perfect name for your cat…
Yes, Schmidt was lucky to be captured by the Canadians and Brits, and not the Russians! And he has just the background to fit in with upper-class British officers, who probably don’t know the extent of his crimes and think what a cultivated gentleman and officer…
Unfortunately such things did happen, and many also escaped to South America, especially Brazil and Argentina (where there were also many refugees from Nazism).
Indeed Sabine would have been jailed and likely killed, but isn’t that one of the reasons she accepted to join a partisan band in Poland? That and wanting Ania to grow up in her own culture.
I’m enjoying the three cats. The big black tomcat, who is usually suspicious of human strangers because he was abused, really likes me. The only unpleasant thing is changing a litter box used by three LARGE cats.
