Deep within the confines of the Swiss Alps, laid a small school for girls of all nationalities. Within it, many backgrounds folded together for their fathers took part in many things. Some were the daughters of Ambassadors, others could be generals in opposing armies, but for a certain two girls... the post their father held was not of any importance, only that of a lowly Stalag in the heart of Germany; its only significant footnote being that it had never once had a successful escape... something no other Kommandant could boast about.
Yes... it was insignificant, but to the two girls and their father, it was everything... given all that had been lost since the passing of a loved one, and the beginning of the hellish struggle that strangled the world into global conflict. What would they all be without the Stalag? The Kommandant: a man most likely condemned to a cold death within the entanglement of the East, or the daughters: orphaned and left without any meager funds to stay safe from the war within Switzerland. Indeed, it was this Stalag that was their salvation... but for how long it would last... only the ever scrawled out message on the maps of the frontlines could tell.
But even then, what mercies would be afforded to them after the fall? Trials, seizure of assets, and even at the minimum just being let off back into the world... What would happen? No doubt the war would leave no jobs to spare, with the industry most likely going to be seized, if it hadn't already been destroyed. And then the matter of politics? What would anyone do for a man who ran a prison camp for the last few years of the war?
The letters never told of anything bad happening... and if anything, only humorous things were mentioned within the correspondence between father and daughters, especially considering the subject of the father's only "equal" within the camp. But still, censors could easily drown out any malicious details. It was war, and what are they to say?
No... all they could do was wait. Wait, and pray that all would be well, so that Janika and Kateřina Klink would be able to see their father once more... no longer fenced off by the realities of war, and the death of their mother before it all began.
And so it was decided within their planning and scheming, that they would indeed wait. They would unpack their bags, they would continue their studies, and continue their correspondence with their father for as long as it would last. They would not run into a war zone to search for him, only at the end... for he would come for them, not the other way around.
Within 50 days, Stalag 13 would cease to be a prison camp, but what happened within that time, would be unknown to the two girls... unknown, until the very end...