Field post letters from hans koch, vienna, world war ii, eastern front, 1922-1945 [[:|previous letter]] () letter no. Empty (1943-04-05) [[:|next letter]] () envelope: front: empty back: empty text iii. She is still young, she is not thinking about it today but later she may want to get married and then she is always in the dark. But don’t say anything about that! - yes, i know that saferl was killed, it is all so sad, these young people. Karl wrote to me that they had also been in tough fighting and narrowly escaped being taken prisoner [battle of stalingrad]. He was promoted to corporal, and he deserved it. Apparently this is the only corner near me where the russians did not attack, so she was “lucky” again. So prohaska wants to get married, well “cheers”, to each his own! i will probably have to marry a russian “matka” because by the time we get out of [russia we will be too old. ]. Date: 5 April 1943.
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