Mail would arrive that had been opened and re-sealed and marked by an examiner or censor handstamp. (All of the envelopes of the letters sent between my parents during the war had these stamps, showing they had been opened and read). The letters inside might have words blacked out if the censor had suspicion about what was being said.

Marguerite is back home in Hanover. Here is more detail about some family members, as well as the strange coincidence of my discovering, as I was writing this story during the Covid pandemic, that one such family member had written a novel in the 1930s about a virus-caused pandemic! In England, for Maude, and the Hall family, the Battle of Britain has begun. Read more about censorship, radar, the Home Guard and Operation Sealion.