Episode 6
Sean Bean presents a series exploring the ways in which wartime experiences have filtered down through the generations.
Stella Collis was born in London in 1947 but it wasn鈥檛 until 2009 that Stella learnt the full details about her father, Gottfried Rabe. Gottfried was a German prisoner of war who at the end of the war was interned at Wormwood Scrubs. In 1947, despite having fathered a child, he was repatriated back to Germany. Tragically Stella Collis passed away in 2018, however between 2009 and 2017 Stella recorded several interviews as she gained access to German military files and her father鈥檚 story began to unfold. These revelations completely transformed Gottfried鈥檚 legacy and Stella鈥檚 life. Stella鈥檚 daughter Juliet Weller helps to tell this remarkable story.
This programme is dedicated in the memory of Stella.
Produced by Kate Bissell
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- Mon 13 Jul 2020 09:30麻豆社 Radio 4
- Sun 11 Oct 2020 14:45麻豆社 Radio 4
- Mon 20 Nov 2023 13:45麻豆社 Radio 4