CHEETINGHAM PENSIONER IN LONG-DISTANCE IDENTITY MIX-UP
Senior citizen Eva Fittler was more than a little surprised when, five weeks ago, she started getting phone calls from a man speaking in a strong German accent.
“He said his name was Martin,” said Eva, who lives in Cheetingham with her husband Adel, “and that he was phoning long distance from Paraguay.”
Now as far as Eva was aware, neither she nor her husband had any German acquaintances at all, let alone one called Martin who lived in South America.
“The man phoned several times and he was quite insistent,” said the 94-year-old. “He said he was sorry for the delay, but it had taken him some time to track us down, what with the change of spelling and everything.
“Then he said that he was still in contact with Hermann and Heinrich and some of the old gang and that they were just waiting for Adel to give them the word.
“Well, I had no idea what he was on about, I thought he must have been a bit funny in the head,” said Eva.
Then, last Saturday, while she was watching a programme about the Wehrmacht on the History Channel, she suddenly realised where all the confusion had come from.
"Well, you could have knocked me down with a feather,” said Eva, “I mean, my Adel may have been a bit of a tearaway in his time but he never did anything like that.
“I suppose it must have been the fact that he has a moustache that led to the mix-up,” she added.
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