A Wars Aftermath

A war´s Aftermath. After the war flats was hard to get, but when mother´s uncle Adolf hung himself in the kitchen that had cement floor and sun stayed away as to tell us something about the nature of hate. Mother´s uncle believed in new order and they had given him a uniform which he used when going to the park to feed the ducks. He had once been an officer In the merchant navy and missed no being in charge… the kitchen only had cold water and a hole for water to disappear into, we also used it to crap in since we had no loo. Mother put a slap on the hole when not using it or rats would come eating our food. At night when I had to pee there was a pot under the bed because I did not dare to go into the kitchen, because I once had seen him hanging there. Adolf, not a big man, once I tried his uniform on, it was big and on his cap there was a skull. I walked out in the street to show the other kids, they were impressed. Mother, very angry burned his uniform, but amongst the ashes I found the silver skull.