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Occupation soldier Rudi, 96, visits family he befriended

A FORMER German Under Officer has visited the island once more to meet the family he helped during the Occupation.

Rudolph Schoberl, 96, who was part of the occupying forces in Guernsey during the Second World War, became friends with Loretta Winterson and her family and gave them food. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 19669490)
Rudolph Schoberl, 96, who was part of the occupying forces in Guernsey during the Second World War, became friends with Loretta Winterson and her family and gave them food. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 19669490) / Guernsey Press

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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