Field post letters from hans koch, vienna, world war ii, eastern front, 1922-1945 previous letter (1943-04-17) letter no. 160 (1943-04-21) next letter (1943-04-24) east, april 21, 1943. My beloved mother! greetings from my heart again. Have you received my letters with the pictures yet? do you like them? i haven't had any mail from you since the two packages on april 16, perhaps something will arrive this evening. We have now received our maketender goods for the führer's birthday, which we receive monthly. That is schnapps and cigarettes and other small items such as combs, mirrors, knives, pipes, etc. Of course, this has to be paid for, but we are still happy when we get something! there was also a leader's donation: 6 men a bottle of schnapps and 4 men a bottle of champagne, 6 cigarettes and 100 grams of chocolate for free! as there were a lot of promotions yesterday, you can imagine that there was a lot of celebrating. Today, of course, everyone is lying down and looking like corpses. I was up front with my sergeant and celebrated too, but in moderation. I have no complaints today either. The sergeant and i have divided up the tender goods for the whole company, which is a lot of work, it costs thousands. Today was also wages, which we paid out. Yesterday evening i was in our platoon bunker, where the. Date: 21 April 1943.
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