‘But after the war,’ Teler points out, ‘nobody in Poland could believe that a German could work in counterespionage and help the Polish Army – every German was regarded as a Nazi.’
He had two sons from a previous marriage – one of whom was the Slovenian politician Ingo Pasch – but in the war, he and Ina conceived a third. It was, therefore, Hans Pasch, rather than Otto Haver, who was Thaddeus’ father.
‘The Scudder family say that Thaddeus and Ingo Pasch are very similar,’ remarks Teler. ‘They look alike, they walk in a similar way and even have similar birthmarks. You can also see from the photographs that Hans Pasch and Thaddeus look like father and son.’
Ina did give birth to Thaddeus in Pawiak, but during the first month of the uprising she lived with her father Mikołaj Florow-Bułhak. At the end of August, he died after their house on Kilińskiego Street was bombed by the Germans – Thaddeus, however, was found safe in the ruins, because he’d been covered by a bathtub. In a desperate bid to escape Warsaw, the pair then made it through the sewers – with the first document confirming her survival placing her at Hohegeiss, and dated 6th April 1945. After reuniting with Hans Pasch, and marrying in June 1945, the trio departed for Germany, and settled in Rhumspringe.
