West Germany – Memoirs of a Country Vet

My First Ski Trip

D. E. Larsen, DVM The Harz Mountains were located not far to the south of Schöningen, where I lived in the Army in Germany. They were not tall mountains like in southern Germany, but they had some ski resorts. Our group from the maintenance shop was at dinner in Braunschweig. We would occasionally gather forContinue reading “My First Ski Trip “

A German Ice Storm

D. E. Larsen, DVM The winter of nineteen sixty-eight and sixty-nine in Northern Germany was throwing everything it could at us. I had been maintenance NCOIC since the middle of the summer. This site had been a madhouse following the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. Snow and ice seem to be coming every week. If itContinue reading “A German Ice Storm”