"How could you ever marry an American..."

"I met my future husband while I was working for the Americans in Salzburg after the war. We got married in 1954. The attitude of my family had been made perfectly clear to me - how could I even think of doing something like marrying an American, especially after my father had died in the war. My father was killed during an air raid - he had been in the air force. But so it goes. That was war."

Elisabeth C., born 1931. Experienced the end of the war in Salzburg, married an American soldier in 1954 and moved to the USA with him. (Boltzmann-Institut/Steinocher-Fonds Interview Archive, Salzburg)