Have I got this right ? The woman in the first post, pictured on the left is Louise Guyon-Witzschel - she was described in the post by 'Heimatschuss' as 'a very handsome woman in her early thirties' and 'a gorgeous wench' !! - whereas Margaret Blank was described as 'a mousey old lady'......
I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but either Louise took a very bad picture or standards of beauty were a lot lower back then !! Also, In the video 'Helge' posted of Margaret Blank, I would not describe her as mousey or old .... maybe its just me, but I'm highly confused !
Louise Guyon-Witzschel
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Re: Louise Guyon-Witzschel
Hello Helge,
many thanks for the additional pictorial material that gives a quite different impression of Margret Blank. Just as seaburn has already observed, there must be some kind of confusion in the persons involved. Perhaps it wasn't Col. Andrus who got the names wrong but Dolibois but even then he must have also exchanged 'tall' for 'small'. Very annoying. Obviously this story about Guyon-Witzschel is more of an anecdote than real history. Presumably there was a female inmate that exposed herself to some guards for cigarettes but the details (including names) remain obscure.
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Torsten
many thanks for the additional pictorial material that gives a quite different impression of Margret Blank. Just as seaburn has already observed, there must be some kind of confusion in the persons involved. Perhaps it wasn't Col. Andrus who got the names wrong but Dolibois but even then he must have also exchanged 'tall' for 'small'. Very annoying. Obviously this story about Guyon-Witzschel is more of an anecdote than real history. Presumably there was a female inmate that exposed herself to some guards for cigarettes but the details (including names) remain obscure.
Best regards
Torsten
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Re: Louise Guyon-Witzschel
Perhaps the cigarettes were in exchange for her putting her clothes back on?
Re: Louise Guyon-Witzschel
that brought a smile to my face !Dwight Pruitt wrote:Perhaps the cigarettes were in exchange for her putting her clothes back on?
Seriously though, I do think they have been mixed up in the story too... MB looked very tall and appeared to have potential to look more like a vixen than Louise in picture one in my very humble opinion.
Re: Louise Guyon-Witzschel
For me they are to reverse the nome of the two women and everything back exactly the story published by Torsten.
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War does not decide who is right but only those who are left.
War does not decide who is right but only those who are left.