Preparing the barn for a belated 50th and 18th year birthday party for Steffen and his son.
Recently built landing on a small lake on Steffen’s land..
Fields of Otersen
Kayakers on the Aller river.
Twenty-four days before the end of WWII, the war came to Otersen. Between April 4th and April 10th, 43 residents of Otersen went missing or were killed. This gravestone in one of 29 in a small graveyard for soldiers whose homes were in Otersen. Hans Lenkersdorf died at 18. Nearby in the Aller river thirteen English soldiers drowned. Fifty million died in WW II.