For Her Children
Six years after her twins’ birth, Elisabeth fell pregnant again with another son, Felix. Josef chose to keep this child in the basement because he and Rosemarie couldn’t cope with another upstairs. Her traumatic births provided her with much-needed company but also heavy psychological damage, and she often contemplated ending her life.
She kept going because someone needed to look after her children, which she had no choice in having. Anyone might wonder how or why Elisabeth and her kids didn’t try to escape their nightmarish reality. Their only connection to the real world was their old television set, and for Kerstin, Stefan, and Felix, this cruel underground world was all they knew.
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