 Complete the following phrase:  Her mother, Almuth Falcke, had trained and qualified as a nurse, but as soon as the first of her five children was born, in 1957, she had abandoned her career in order to focus on looking after her family. In a country that had been left desperately short of working age population by the slaughter of war and the emigration to the west that had taken place since 1945, it was widely considered old-fashioned to a fault for married women to give up paid employment in order to concentrate on their children. As the children became less dependent she returned to work as a community nurse, although she had been unable to obtain the full nursing qualifications, due to her failure to meet the appropriate political requirements. The Falcke children enjoyed a varied musical education and were encouraged to read extensively. standing as a theologian and church minister meant that the family were less isolated from western Christendom than most East German children. Thanks to the smuggling talents of some of their more ingenious visitors from the far side of the 