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German soldiers.  It would be good neither for her nor the soldiers, nor Hilly.  So, as Mr Burton admitted, she was a very plucky woman and didn't [[strikethrough]]get[[/strikethrough]] give up.  She told the soldiers to take off their uniforms and all their army clothes.  Then she ordered them to lie down on the floor and she covered them up with some dirty clothes.  Then she threw the uniforms out the window.  I don't quite understand where they landed but I think it was in a court.  Then she hid Hilly, her only dear possession, under the couch.  Going to the door she faced the Russian soldiers alone.  When they entered she told them the 3 figures on the floor were civilians.  It didn't seem to work.  They took 



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them with them when they left.  They also found Hilly and started to take her off.  Mrs. Freitag said they couldn't take her daughter, the only thing she had left.  However they dragged Hilly off.  Just then down the hall the Russian soldiers saw a girl smiling coyley from behind a door.  They immediately ran after her, leaving Hilly standing in bewilderment and terror and momental relief.  Suddenly, however, when they discovered the girl was the daughter of a high German officer, they left her and went after Hilly again.  However Mrs. Freitag had taken Hilly and had hidden her in a coal pile in the basement.  She said she could never be sure that the heavy lumps of coal would not smother Hilly.  The Russians beat