Holy Crap! gentleman!!! I get pissed when people don't speak the English language in this country, and here I'm schpieking tcherman!
'' born 39 Fliegerhorst Linawald, Thuringen and you ?"
Does the ""39" mean you were born in 1939? Or is that the number of the street address?
Ottersleben and later renamed Magdeburg-SW, is where I spent the first 11 years of my life, in the communist zone after WW2, and glad to be a hell of a long way from that type of regime.
Ralph