Didn't know he was there.
I was at the Berlin Wall in the mid-1980s when it was still up, and you had to walk up a ladder and stand on a walkway to see it properly.
When it came down, Karl(ex Luftwaffe) invited me and Anne to stay with him and Gerda in Berlin, which we accepted. He sent me a small piece of the wall, so I asked if he could get a bigger piece for when we visited. Did he? When we got to his place, he disappeared, then a few moments later came back with an almost square piece of the wall, about 1' x 1'. I don't know how I got it through German customs in my luggage, trying not to walk lopsided with the weight!
As Karl was in the Battle of Britain, I donated it to the Kent Battle of Britain Museum at Hawkinge as a 'gift' from Karl, who had died several years previously.
