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We are people to whom the past is forever speaking. We listen to it because we cannot help ourselves, for the past speaks to us with many voices.

Far out of that dark now here which is the time before we were born, men and women who were flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone went through fire and storm to break a path to the future.

We are part of the future they died for; they are part of the past that brought the future. What they did - the lives they lived, the sacrifices they made, the stories they told, the songs they sang, the food they ate and, finally, the deaths they died - make up a part of our own experience.

We cannot cut ourselves off from it. It is as real to us as something that happened last week. It is a basic part of our heritage as human beings.

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M Name	Surname	born	Location	F Name	Surname	born
Arlt	Johann Gottfried	1806	unknown	Alter	Johanne Rosine	1811
Arlt	Heinrich Ernst	1831	Welkersdorf-Silesia (lower)	Geisen	Helene	1838
Arlt	Josef Heinrich	1860	Ehrenbreitstein/Koblenz	Buschmeier	Friederike Charlotte Meta	1855
Arlt	Hermann Ernst	1893	Minden	Kelle	Charoliene Friederike Marie	1893
Arlt	H E jun.	1918	Guetersloh	Holzer	E L	1923
Arlt	G E	1952

I traced my ancestors back to appr. 1820. The Arlts lived during that days in Welkersdorf (now Rzasiny), shire Loewenberg, district Liegnitz in lower Silesia (today Poland). H E Arlt, a “Wallmeister” (fortification official) was dispatched from the fortress Posen to the newly built fortress Ehrenbreitstein near Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz. When he died, his widow moved to join relatives in Minden, Westfalen.

J H Arlt’s profession is not reported - but must have been related with civil construction work. He was involved in the building of the “Kaiser-Wilhelm” monument at Porta-Westfalica near Minden.

H E Arlt sen. first profession was metal-turner, but he worked all his life for the “Reichsbahn” serving as train driver.

H E Arlt jun. apprenticeship was office/sales clerk, but he became a professional soldier at the age of 17. He served all the way through WW2, especially in Russia in the 6th division which was reamed in Stalingrad. He survived because shortly before the Soviet ring (Kessel) was closed, he was “luckily” being severly wounded while, in his rank of ordnance (Ober-Feuerwerker), unfusing a explosive device.