"Meeting an American soldier was a glimpse of hope..."

"The times were terrible. You have to try to imagine that, for years, we had nothing, no coffee, and...we were thirsty for something better. Meeting an American soldier was a glimpse of hope. I only condemned the girls who hopped from one guy to the next. They called us...well, you know what they called us - ... . But I was never a kept woman, I always worked for myself. I was in love with him. He was a handsome man, and I was young and single and free."

Ingeborg S., born in 1923, met an American soldier during the days of liberation in Salzburg in May, 1945 (Boltzmann-Institut/Steinocher-Fonds Interview Archive, Salzburg)