I might have MP3s and rough videos available this weekend. Any volunteers willing to help in transscribing the session? Either watch video or listen MP3 and type their chatting to text, so I can put it all together and publish it all? Some 30 minute clips, quite clear English chatting, with a beautiful German dialect hard "k's" thrown in ;-)
Drop in your email address or email me to
jkauppin@jmp.fi if you're interested.
Which reminds me, fun chaps, those two, really. After the war they both studied and worked, then immediately jumped into the chance to get into rebuilt Lufthansa. "Lufthansa was the finest airline in Europe - and we wanted to build it again, to even better than it was". It was really nice to chat with them, gotta say again. Herr Spoden's most memorable experience was of course the 17 years old Hungarian girl ;-) He much preferred it to anything else that happened in the war. "I'm not proud of all that killing - but I'll tell you about Eva. That's a true story! A beautiful story!"
Which story actually still continues. He met Eva in '44 - and got a letter from Hungary 3 months ago from Eva, who had found Spoden's book (Enemy in the Dark, by Peter Spoden) and found how Spoden fondly remembered those days at the village and with Eva, even with photos of Eva - and wrote back to Peter. "Peter! I'm still here! I'm a grandmother! And Doctor!" And sent her photo. "She's a bit older now", Spoden said and laughed.
Now Peter is plannign a trip to Hungary
Amazing fellow, that guy
Jackal,
Not right now. Maybe some day. I'm putting these interviews together as a hobby, as love for aviation, non profit, and making some articles to a Finnish aviation magazine to recover some of the costs. A book - maybe some day.
