Field post letters from hans koch, vienna, world war ii, eastern front, 1922-1945 previous letter (1945-02-25) letter no. 313 (1945-03-04) next letter (1945-03-12) envelope: front back text yes, we wanted to! they only let us as far as löwenberg, which is just before berlin, there they told all soldiers to get out and no one was allowed into berlin without a special pass - and we didn't. Of course we ran from pillar to post but to no avail - we didn't get in. But we had to go anyway because the main thing we were supposed to bring for the commander was there. It still didn't work so we went back to blankenburg empty-handed. The first thing we heard here was that we had been transferred to potsdam; they couldn't keep us long. Well, you can imagine our joy. We had to report to the major, who didn't say anything about how we arrived. He just said we had to leave straight away. We argued that we had been transferred, but that didn't bother him much; we should just follow him. I wrote out another travel document, to berlin and neustrelitz, with reasons that no patrol could harm us. He even signed the tickets for all trains and second class without hesitation. Yes, if so. Our friends and the sergeant were of course stunned that we had managed this again. So we set off for berlin again. After a few incidents, we arrived safely. Berlin has been hit very hard; there are hardly any intact buildings left; everything is burnt out or destroyed. It must have been very nice in the past. Date: 4 March 1945.
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