"After a while, we had all returned, myself first, then soldier Barbaix and eventually Daniel from the East. The only thing we could think about was enjoying ourselves but where was the money going to come from, that was the question.
I had just passed our Control Commission, which decided on who was a Political Prisoner and who was most certainly not! Besides all this, of the ten thousand genuine survivors, there were ninety thousand imposters: all this prolonged our agony with endless waiting. The whole process was embedded in red tape. Then there was the battle of the government. The one we had experienced during occupation and the one in exile. All this had to be sorted out by the competing factions or eventually compromised on.
With the question of the King, they made short measurement. Everybody agreed to it, that he should abdicate until his son was ready for the throne. In the meantime, Prince Albert was his "Voogd". In fact, it was a moral and symbolic decapitation of the King himself.
There were a few Political Prisoners who held seats in the Senate and some also controlled newspapers, like Blum, for the People. The rest was firmly united and organized in the Association for Political Prisoners.
Wherever we seemed to go; I remember seeing demonstrations in the capital which were organized to help speed up our cases so we could start our normal life again. We now had to fill in lots of papers and were considered to be demobilised soldiers.
Not one of the survivors was really in a very healthy state of body and spirit afterwards and so we were considered to be invalids!!!!
All this was gradually achieved over a two year period. Some didn't have very far to go, used up!!!!
To be continued .....
I had just passed our Control Commission, which decided on who was a Political Prisoner and who was most certainly not! Besides all this, of the ten thousand genuine survivors, there were ninety thousand imposters: all this prolonged our agony with endless waiting. The whole process was embedded in red tape. Then there was the battle of the government. The one we had experienced during occupation and the one in exile. All this had to be sorted out by the competing factions or eventually compromised on.
With the question of the King, they made short measurement. Everybody agreed to it, that he should abdicate until his son was ready for the throne. In the meantime, Prince Albert was his "Voogd". In fact, it was a moral and symbolic decapitation of the King himself.
There were a few Political Prisoners who held seats in the Senate and some also controlled newspapers, like Blum, for the People. The rest was firmly united and organized in the Association for Political Prisoners.
Wherever we seemed to go; I remember seeing demonstrations in the capital which were organized to help speed up our cases so we could start our normal life again. We now had to fill in lots of papers and were considered to be demobilised soldiers.
Not one of the survivors was really in a very healthy state of body and spirit afterwards and so we were considered to be invalids!!!!
All this was gradually achieved over a two year period. Some didn't have very far to go, used up!!!!
To be continued .....
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