A specialist who operated the Schlüsselmaschine (Enigma-Machine) coded messaging system while he was stationed here, Rudi Schoberl, 96, first came in 1943 when he was 23 years old.
A local family, the Halletts, made up at the time of eight children and their widowed mother, struck up a life-long friendship with Mr Schoberl when he risked his life to bring them food during strict rationing,
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