We discovered the picture mounted with scotch tape to an old sheet of plywood in the attic. There were some words inscribed on the bottom of the drawing that were in German but other than that there was nothing else to identify the penciled etching. No signature. We knew it had some connection to World War II. since we had heard the old stories.
We had asked questions about the war since it was so closely connected to our time of birth. Dad had described some of his encounters for our family history and I vaguely remember interviewing him about his life so that we could hear his stories one more time. Until now that had not seemed relevant but as we prepared to handle the estate, we had to separate things of importance. We knew where some of the special heirlooms were hidden but we had never seen the picture of the castle. When we located it we decided to rescue it and have it mounted in a frame. We knew very little about the castle itself and maybe sometime in the future we would be able to uncover more details about the castle. That was in 1988.
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