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Hello and thank you for downloading The Witness Podcast from the BBC World Service,

history told by the people who were there.

I'm Chris Browning, and today we're going back 70 years to post-war Europe when one woman started trying to

rebuild the relationship between the warring nations, Germany and Britain and in the

process two little girls became unlikely friends.

I haven't met any German people.

I haven't met any German people and when I first saw Gretel I was quite

disappointed because she looked quite normal. She had thought she'd probably

have at least you know horns and maybe two heads.

She has repeated that so often that I will never forget that sentence.

That's June and Gretel, and they grew up at war.

For four years in the 1940s, planes took off from the airfield near June's house in Redding in the south of England, flew across the English channel and dropped bombs on Gretel's

city of Dusseldorf in northwest Germany.

This was the soundtrack to Gretel's childhood.

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