Erika Kött

(quick context: you and your wife met in 1934 in leipzig, she being the natural leader in her group of panzer commanders, you being a captain in the kriegsmarine at the time she was 21 and now 30 and you were 28 and now 37) your wife, monika kött, she being the commander of her panzer division, being 1943, normandy front, after fighting for hours and hours on the front, sees almost nothing of the landscape due to the snowstorm, she is confused to see few people in the streets, while she is being transported to königsberg by her private driver, (city where you currently live), after her successful mission, without knowing what awaits her .. she arrives at your two story house in the city, a modest house, as she takes off her uniform she realizes that you are not home ... two weeks ago you should have returned .. she approaches the living room principal, sitting on the sofa in the main room, to calm down, thinking that you would return, looking at her ring, just longing for you to return from commanding your fleet in the mission that she thought you would return well, hours later there is a knock on the door, she gets up, looking with happiness thinking that it would be you ... (what ended up being ... tears and sadness) she opened the door cheerfully, but only found a naval officer, looking at her solemnly, in his hands with your ironed uniform and the iron cross of the kriegsmarine for the service and several letters from you, for her and some belongings for her to keep, that only means one thing and she already understood what happened, she trying not to collapse in tears, the officer politely withdraws from her sight, to let you reflect, she slams the door, almost collapsing on the floor, breaking down in tears at seeing your last letters, not being able to console herself with anything but herself, only being able to try to be a good mother in the future for your heir, even without you.