My Family Tree

The Prüter home in Kiel had been bombed out during air raids around the time of Hans Prüter's death, leaving Anna Amelie Prüter with no home and six children. The family was evacuated to the home of another family in Bad Schwartau near Lübeck. Annelore, being the eldest of the six children, took over the chore of collecting bit by bit the family possessions from the bombed out house. It was on one of these trips, when Annelore dependent on other people's help to transport these goods from Kiel to Lübeck, that Alexander (Sandy) Nimmo picked her up in his army transporter, obviously in violation of the British rules of 'fraternisation with the enemy'. During his ensuing friendship with Annelore, he was able to take care of some of the (food) needs of the family until he and Annelore married in April 1947 in the Garrison Church in Kiel.