Margaret
I followed Joe up the stairs as we broke into a German apartment complex.
"Tell her she's got five minutes," Nix said to Joe. Joe sighed and told her she had to leave. I watched them proceeding to listen to them argue in German.
"Sir she says they've got nowhere to go but to the house next door," Joe spoke to Nix. I felt bad about what they were doing but this was how war went. Web started yelling some other stuff at them. I frowned and leaned against the wall in the kitchen.
Once they left and everyone cleared out I looked at Joe.
"I know Maggie," he frowned and held my hand as we went to find a bedroom. I peered out the window as I saw the companies marching the krauts to pow camps. I sighed and Joe took off my helmet than his. I rested my head on his chest, he kissed my head. Before we loaded back up to whatever next.
We were once in the back of the trucks, some of the Germans were looking at us. Web sighed and stood up in the truck. "Hey, you! Hey, you that's right you stupid kraut bastards! That's right! Say hello to Ford and General fucking Motors you stupid fascist pigs! Look at you! You have horses!"
"Web that's enough," I pulled him back into the truck.
"Dragging our asses halfway around the world. Interrupting our lives, and for what?!" He got up screaming at them again. He did have a point but he did waste his energy on them.
Joe sighed and put his arm around me, "Cigarette?"
"Sure," I sighed as he handed me one and I took my lighter out. I sighed and inhaled deeply and let out the smoke. We drove past a small house and French troops pulled out three krauts and lined them up execution-style. As they shot one, O'Keefe flinched.
Joe smiled and I sighed taking another drag. We both were out for revenge for what they did and we're still doing to our people. Joe was always so rough and violent with nazis.
Soon, we arrived in another town.
"I think we're close to getting to go home Mags," he kissed my knuckles I nodded.
"Move it out!" Winters called as the trucks stopped. I grabbed my medic bag and helmet as I jumped off and waited for Joe.
We walked over to Winter where he leaned on a Jeep.
"I wanna send out some patrol. We'll have Dog here in the village. Easy and Fox in the woods." Winters sighed.
Nix turned around, "Easy company's gonna take the northwest." Joe nodded and we headed to the woods.
We held hands and swung them as we walked in the woods. It was kind of romantic?
"You know Maggie, I never thought I'd ever meet my dream girl till I met you." Joe smiled looking down at me.
"Really? I didn't think I'd ever want to date again, let alone have a kid. But uh here we are." I giggled looking at him.
"You know I don't think I ever asked you to be my girlfriend but we're engaged now." He giggled and took a drink from his canteen and gave it to me.
I took a drink and handed it back.
Bull picked on O'Keefe as we walked over some fallen logs.
"I think that's perfectly fine Joe," I shrugged.
"Hey, Maggie, Lieb, George!" Frank turned glancing at us.
"Yeah?" I looked up.
"This kind of reminds me of Bastogne." He shrugged.
"Yeah, now that you mentioned it except of course there's no snow. We got warm grub in our bellies and the trees aren't fucking exploding from Krauts. But yeah other than that it's a lot like Bastogne." George complained.
"Right?" Frank looked around.
I looked up at Joe as he started humming a song.
"What's going on in your mind there hun?" I asked him.
"Just thinking about when we'll get to live happily ever after." He shrugged.
"I can't wait to go home with you," I sighed pushing some hair from my face.
"I can't wait to show you all my favorite places," he giggled.
"It sure is quiet," O'Keefe spoke up.
"Yeah except for the two love birds over there chattering away about how perfect their life's going to be." Luz lit a cigarette, we all stopped looking around then continued slowly.
We all felt some sense of paranoia, we came to an opening in the woods. We all froze as we saw tall fences with people who looked like walking corpses looking out of them.
"Shit," I mumbled.
"Here I'll go tell Nix," Frank spoke up.
"Me and Maggie are coming to," Joe said as we ran after Frank.
"You seen Foley?" I asked a soldier as I was out of breath from running. He shook his head, I sighed looking around for an officer. Frank ran around like a chicken with his head cut off.
"What's the matter?" Winters asked us catching Frank's attention.
"We found something, we were out on patrol and we came across this," winters cut him off.
"What, what, what, what? Frank, what is it?" He asked as we all stopped.
"I don't know sir," Frank shook his head.
We all climbed into a truck as they went to check it out. Joe played with my hair the whole way back to where we were talking about. Frank pointed to the place we were talking about. I jumped out of the truck as it stopped and followed Nix and Winters to the gate. Joe stayed out with the other guys.
We looked around at all the people who looked like they were ready to fall over an die any moment. They were all so skinny and looked hopeless. They opened the gates and told the people to stay back.
We walked in and the people all looked so thankful for our arrival. Some started hugging soldiers, I frowned as a man came over and spoke to me in German. I didn't understand a word he was saying.
"It's gonna be okay," was all I could say. I wandered over to Winters and Nix as a man tried to speak to them in German. None of us understood.
"God damn it, who do we have that speaks," Nix stopped and looked at me, "Protch go get your boyfriend we need him up here." I nodded and held my helmet as I ran through the people and solider.
"Liebgott?" I called into the crowd of men, "Liebgott?" I got into an opening and saw him.
"What's up Maggie?" He walked over.
"Nix and Winters need you up at the front," I looked at him and I followed him as we ran up to where they were standing. He stopped looking around at everyone, he took his helmet off and I took it from him.
He put his arm around me as the man spoke to Joe.
"He said the Guards left this morning sir," Joe turned from the man to Winters.
"They burned some of the huts first with the prisoners still in them sir, alive." He sighed.
"Jesus Christ," Nix murmured. My heart skipped a beat thinking about what these people had been through.
"Some of the prisoners who tried to stop them. Some of them were killed. They didn't have enough ammo for all the prisoners so." He stopped and looked back at the man who was visibly shaking. I turned my head into Joe's chest.
"They killed as many as they could," he put his arm around me.
"Before they left the camp, they locked the gates behind them and headed south." Joe finished and kissed my head.
"Someone in town must have told them we were coming," Nix sighed.
"Yeah I think so," Joe nodded. I looked back up at the men.
"Will you ask him what kind of camp this is?" Winters looked at Joe, "Um what uh. Why are they here?" Joe spoke to the man in German.
"He says it's a work camp for? I'm not sure what that word means sir? Uh, unwanted disliked maybe?" Joe guessed.
"Criminals?" Winters asked.
"I don't think criminals, sir." Joe sighed and asked the man more questions.
"Doctors, musicians, tailors, clerks, farmers, intellectuals. I mean normal people." Joe sighed, the man said something and I felt Joe's heart skip a beat.
"They're Jews..." Joe frowned and bit his lip, "Poles and Gypsies." The man said some other things before he began to cry. I sniffed and wiped my eyes.
"Liebgott?" Nix looked at him.
"The women's camp is at the next railroad stop," Joe sighed and watched as the man walked away crying.
I sniffed looking around, everyone in here were just people. People that were Jewish, just like me and Joe.
"This could've been us," I mumbled before breaking down. Joe grabbed me and embraced me tightly as I cried into his chest. Joe ran his fingers through my hair.
"Maggie sh, let's go out to the trucks you can help them okay?" He tried coaxing me, I nodded and looked up at my boyfriend. He held my hand as we walked out of the camp and to the trucks.
More trucks pulled up with food and water and we helped distribute it to the people.