Adventurous journey: What a Bentheim resident experienced at the end of the war

By Rike Herbering. At some point, Helmuth Albach decided to escape. It was the final days of World War II when the then 15-year-old Bentheimer stood with two other teenagers at a train station near Cuxhaven. He didn't want to go to Denmark, as ordered by the Nazis. Eventually, Albach set out on foot back to the county. This wasn't his only adventure during World War II, and he looks back on it very differently today than he did as a child. more.…