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My father, Dr T Barwell, aged 10 days short of 96, reminds me of this story as he heard the Radio 4 item last week.
He was on holiday in Russia in 1937 and met a Danish family which included a teenage daughter called Karen-Else Hansen.
The following year he was rowing in a regatta in Essen and on the way home he stopped in Cologne to view the cathedral. He met a crocodile of schoolgirls which included Karen-Else Hansen. They were travelling home after holidaying in the Black Forest. So he was travelling from Essen to London and she was travelling from the Black Forest to Denmark and they met in Cologne.
End of story. They never had any other contact.
Mary Whiteside
Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:21:19 +0000Coincidence ID:4772
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