War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 123 The Jews in Berlin (addition for Long's little brother)
The unexpected visitors were sent away, and the clinic in the alley resumed its original busyness. The city of Berlin, which was continuously bombed and shelled, lacked everything, but it definitely did not lack injured civilians and soldiers.

In the continuous busyness, apart from the fact that a shell hit the wall of an apartment at the entrance of the alley and startled everyone before the sun set, everything was fine.But the sound of the firefight that lasted all day was getting closer and closer. Even at night, the urban area across the river was already on fire, and even the sky was covered with blood red.

As night fell, the small clinic finally sent away the last injured civilian.In the clinic that still smelled of blood, the little nurse brought a small amount of food to the table, then turned around and went into the kitchen to continue working.

Dr. Lodge poked a piece of fish with a fork and took a bite in the bread. He said vaguely, "You can rest on the second floor at night, but it's better to have someone on guard, in case a plane drops bombs here , maybe some more people can escape.”

"I'll come!" Marco said without thinking, "I'll stare at the sky."

Rocky nodded and stopped talking. After eating a small amount of food in two or three bites, he turned around and took out a pack of fishing nets from the utility room, "I'm going to catch some food for tomorrow, and you all eat slowly."

"Let me help, too, to see if I can collect some food." Wei Ran was the second to get up, and chased Dr. Rocky out of the clinic.

The two walked around the newly appeared ruins at the entrance of the alley. Dr. Lodge skillfully cast the fishing net into the river, and then walked a few steps not far away. With the help of Wei Ran, he cast another fishing net into the river last night. Pulled up.

The catch on this fishing net is not too much, and there are only less than ten fish in total, but fortunately, each fish is not too small, but perhaps because they have been in the water for too long, more than half of these fish have died .

Helping Dr. Rocky stuff the fishing net and the fish on it into the bag, Wei Ran hesitated for a long time, and then told him what the woman said before she died at noon.

Hearing this, Professor Rocky paused, and with the help of Wei Ran, he walked back with his canvas bag and said in a low voice, "Take me to see later."

"Okay" Wei Ran responded simply.

Seeing that he was about to reach the door of the clinic, Dr. Lodge said abruptly, "Take your weapon."

Looking at the person in front of him in surprise, Wei Ran nodded and said again, "Okay".

When the little nurse who was still wearing a mask took over the canvas bag containing the catch, Dr. Lodge also took a flashlight from the clinic and put it in his pocket, and under the leadership of Wei Ran, he walked to the not far away in the dark. Building ruins.

Coming back to the door of the collapsed room, Wei Ran gently opened the door and pointed out the location for Dr. Rocky.

Under the faint light provided by the only flashlight, the two climbed along the gap in the corner to the side of the corpse.Before Dr. Lodge could say anything, Wei Ran pointed to the sofa, the meaning of which was self-evident.

Dr. Rocky nodded, handed the flashlight to Wei Ran, and carefully lifted the cloth around the sofa.Under the dim light of the flashlight, immediately after the cloth was lifted, a pair of eyes full of fear and tears were revealed!

"You are Mora?" Dr. Lodge asked in a low voice.

When the eyes hiding in the sofa heard these words, Dou Da's tears couldn't stop flowing down, drop by drop hitting the remaining dark red blood on the floor.

"Turn off the lights," Dr. Lodge said in a low voice.

Wei Ran immediately turned off the flashlight when he heard the words, and at the same time secretly heaved a sigh of relief. He guessed correctly, there was indeed someone hiding in that sofa, and it happened to be one of his return missions, Mora.

Feeling in the dark, they pulled Mora out of the mezzanine under the sofa, and a group of three crawled out of the ruin-like room along the narrow gap.

As the flashlight came on again, Wei Ran finally saw clearly that the little girl of Mora was about the same age as Mario, but compared to Mario, she was sallow and emaciated, obviously suffering from malnutrition for a long time status,
"Wait a second"

Wei Ran seemed to have thought of something, stopped Dr. Rocky who was about to open the door to leave, and took a flashlight into the gap in the corner again.Not long after, when he came out again, Wei Ran already had a group photo in a frame in his hand.

Wiping the dried blood on the edge of the photo frame, Wei Ran handed it to the little girl Mo La who already had deep fear in her eyes.

"Let's go." Doctor Lodge picked up Mora, and then opened the concealed wooden door.

With the little girl Mora, the two avoided the soldiers patrolling the city and carefully returned to the entrance of the alley.

"Doctor Rocky, what are you going to do with this little girl?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice.

Dr. Lodge stopped, hugged Mora and said in the dark, "Her father used to work in my clinic, but he was also a Jew and was taken away two years ago. At that time, I thought Mora She was also taken away, I didn't expect her mother to hide her for so long."

"So?" Wei Ran asked after taking a step back.

"Let our Major Rudy decide," said Dr. Lodge, and he started to walk towards the clinic in the dark.

Without explaining the little girl's origin at all, the little nurse took her and sent her to the bathroom. Not long after, a bald girl in hospital gown came out of the bathroom.Dr. Marco and Dr. Hans were also called down by Dr. Lodge, and surrounded the oil lamp on the table, telling the whole situation without reservation.

Seeing that everyone including Wei Ran was looking at him, Marco scratched the back of his head and looked at the trembling little girl not far away, "Mario also brought over the uniform of the Youth League when I was a child, you can wear it for her first." Now, as long as my identity is not exposed, she should not be in any danger."

"Marco, I'm very glad you can give this answer." While Father Hans was speaking, he threw a scalpel on the table with a clang.

Ignoring Marco who stared round his eyes, Dr. Rocky also took out his hand under the table, put a Luger P08 pistol on the table lightly, and said casually, "Remind your brother not to Do something stupid, or we'll all be wrecked."

Marco swallowed hard, "I'll remind Mario, I...I'll get her clothes."

Watching Marco leave in the dark, Father Hans looked at Dr. Lodge with a mocking face, "Aren't you holding a weapon in your hand?"

"It's my father's relic, you should know it." Dr. Lodge put the pistol back into his arms while speaking.

Not long after, Marco handed a khaki youth uniform to Mora who was still standing in the corner, and said as gently as possible, "Put it on, from now on, your name is Marco, you are a little boy, understand Do I mean?"

Mora looked at Marco timidly, then nodded, hugged the clothes, and followed the little nurse into the next room.

After arranging the little girl, Dr. Lodge blew out the kerosene lamp and whispered in the dark clinic, "Now the battlefield is getting closer and closer to us, and our medicines, food, and even kerosene for lighting are all in short supply. Not enough."

"Where else can I get these things?" Father Hans asked in a low voice.

Dr. Lodge sighed, "It's hard, the whole of Berlin lacks these things."

"What if we leave here?" Marco asked, "As long as we can find a way to cross the Moltke Bridge, maybe."

"Maybe he will die sooner." Father Hans took over the words, "Listen to the movement outside, the Soviets may have already hit the city. At this time, the opposite bank is relatively less bombed, and it is no safer than ours."

"If you leave"

"How to cross the Moltke Bridge is a problem," Wei Ran, who had been watching, reminded.

"I'm going home!"

Marko said suddenly, "I'm going to my aunt to find out, maybe she can help us get medicine and other things."

"Yes, go!" Father Hans snorted coldly, "Then ask her to bring the soldiers over, set up machine guns at the door of the clinic, or directly burn us to death with a flamethrower."

The young Marco opened his mouth and finally lost his mind.

"Persist for as long as you can!" Dr. Rocky lit a match, and under the faint light of the flame, he went to a hospital bed and lay down. Not long after, he began to snore not much smaller than the explosion outside.

"Let's go to rest too!" Father Hans took out a kerosene lighter and lit it up, beckoning Marco and Wei Ran back to the second floor.

Almost at the same time when the light from the lighter disappeared, the little nurse finally took off her hat and mask, walked into the kitchen cautiously in the dark, picked up a small basket full of fish and bread, walked into the bathroom, and gently lifted the In the bathtub piled with blood-stained clothes, a hole exuded a faint light.

"Shh-"

The little nurse made a silent gesture, first handed down the basket full of food, and waited for the person inside to catch it, before helping a girl who was also wearing a nurse's uniform to come out.

Immediately afterwards, buckets of fetid excrement were handed out from the hole under the bathtub.The two girls used a stick to lift all these things outside and dumped them into the sewer at the entrance of the alley.

After they finished their work, they finally sent several barrels of fresh water from the river into the cave. The little nurse who had been busy outside for a whole day hugged another girl who also wore a nurse's uniform. Wearily got into the hole.

But the girl who just came out of the cave not long ago was left outside. She put the enamel bathtub back to its original position with ease, and put on a nurse's cap and mask as she walked out in the dark.

At the same time, Dr. Lodge, who was snoring on the hospital bed by the stairs, quietly put away the pistol covered by the blanket, and closed his eyes in peace.

　Repay the debt, add updates for long's little brother, add updates for long's little brother, add updates for long's little brother

　　
　
(End of this chapter)