We are almost beyond living memory of most of the major events of the last century. All of the veterans of WW2 are gone now, all of the veterans from WW1 are truly gone. When I a was a kid in the sixties, I knew quite a few elderly gentlemen who had served in the Great War. By the time I was thirty they were all gone. Seme now that I am over sixty with the veterans of the Second World War. The typewriter of the day is an Erika Model 30 which was made in the GDR, East Germany, Those who want to scare themselves if they remember the fall of the wall need to realize that it came down twenty nine years ago. Does time fly!
Here is my little reminder of that time:
It was sitting in my collection, untouched, I pulled it out and ran some paper in - Perfect!
Looking at the Classic Typewriter Page the only writer I could find who used an Erika was Bertolt Brecht.
He is not using an Erika Model 30, nor does he have paper in his machine but he is enjoying cigar.
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