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A wartime romance that risked the wrath of families

THEY risked the wrath of their families, just by falling in love.

Former SS Stormtrooper Rudi Franzel and Betty Young initially kept their friendship a secret after meeting at Upperkeith Farm, in Humbie, East Lothian.

But the relationship between the PoW and the local farm girl blossomed and this week they celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary.

They met a few years after the end of the Second World War, when Rudi had been billeted to pick potatoes at a farm close to the Gosford PoW camp near Aberlady.

Betty, now 81, had been sent to the farm by her mother to collect vegetables and Rudi helped her carry the heavy basket.
Read entire article at Scotsman