Heidleberg from castle
I think we went to Heidelberg on the way to Mannheim to stay with our friends. My father was on the funicular and was taking movies - he was using up the film leader (when you loaded a film camera, the part of the film in the beginning would be exposed to light so that part of the film was usually blank and you ran a foot of movie film out before you started taking movies of something that mattered). Since he grew up in a family of German immigrants, he understood German. One of the men on the funicular car with us said (in German) "Look at the stupid American, taking photos into the sun". A little later, my dad took the opportunity to speak to him in German - I don't remember in this case what he said.
Nekar River from castle
from Heidelberg castle
Guide - Heidelberg Castle
Madonna statue at the Kornmarkt
a building called "Ottheinrichsbau" labeled as Heidelburg but I think it may be in Nuremburg
Old Building
sunset
Heidelburg PX
Auntie Peg, my sister, my mom and me
Ruins and a chimney
My mom listening to the guide
We went to stay with my mother's friends that we called Aunty Peg and Uncle Bob who were living in quarters in Mannheim.
Peg and Bob's apartment
They were no relation to us, but my mother would not allow us to call them by their first names without some kind of prefix. Uncle Bob was a Colonel in the US Army, and he had a car and had the ability to get us into some restricted areas (like Hitler's Eagles Nest). The car gave us greater mobility but it also means that I'm less certain of when we actually visited some of the places.
House with sign
Lady with ax picture on the gable
Salamander shoe store in Mannheim - My dad's first research subjects were salamanders - so any salamander reference led to a photo
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