Welcome to my Blog

Hello.

My name is Arne Braun and I am 87 years old. I decided to start a blog because I read an article in a German Newspaper which said that blogging was the future. So here I am. Of course I had to ask my granddaughter, Heidi, to help me. She is very good with technology even though she is only 12 years old.

I was born in a little village in Cologne in December 1921. I was the fourth child in a family of five. We grew up on a farm and it was a very happy childhood! I went to a very respectable school nearby and then onto University where I studied History of Art. It was there that I met my wife, Ilse. We quickly fell in love (like many youngsters these days) and married at 19 years of age. It seems such a long time ago now. After graduating, I took up a post as a researcher at a university. It was a very interesting time in my life but my wife was away during the war as a translator. She was an incredibly intelligent young woman. After the war, she was offered a post in England working with German soldiers who had been injured and kept in England until the end of the war. Many of them did not have homes to go to and so wanted to stay in England for a little while longer. My wife helped them communicate and breakdown any animosity which may have been felt.

That is why I have decided to create a blog in England because I am now back in Germany and miss my days in London. I hope for those who read it will find it interesting and will enjoy what I have to say.

Guten Abend