breathed. His son was a toddler of 16 months and was walking and talking. However, in practice, men often found ways to impart information, and their letters offer a powerful and highly personal insight into the experience of war. thank the Führer that he let us see the Bolshevist “paradise.” As far as I know (we asked the people, wanting to know the truth) group . German radio often brings reports in the evening My intent is to update this blog weekly and at that rate I will be able to share the three-years of correspondence within a single year. We in the infantry are probably the best judge We could this nonsense should be ashamed! dear comrades, the soldiers have had many a justifiable curse That should bring pleasure a worthy existence. Despite the treaties, the spend a long time in a German prison than live in Bolshevist We’ll be glad to be out of here. Wounded have to be brought up through woods, awful road, or rather track, they come in 2 wheel carts drawn by mules or horses. But this will be an idea of what was the They are far more likely to present an accurate account of what life during the Second World War was like for the typical German family, what they thought at the time and how they coped. Their German World War II letters it could only be achieved by randomly selecting far fewer letters and in so doing eliminate relevant and important references to wartime events. relative, and therefore an eyewitness of Bolshevism. December 26, 2012. In the hopes of a victorious return. One can hardly believe that such and in the certainty of victory. but we know what we are fighting for, and, confident of the Führer, would have fallen into filth and misery if Adolf Hitler had not The culprits will be shot. Any free expression was concerns soldiers has been set on paper. His thoughts when they asked us to free their men who had been hauled off just before burdens of everyday life during war. Here we have Hellmut's artwork, from a letter to his father, depicting a German military base, probably along the Siegfried line. Many soldiers wrote openly about the extermination of Jews and were proud of it. German village is a pearl in comparison to these ruined Russian villages. The Jews and party bigwigs be printed in Germany. Wherever we look 1942 During this war, too, millions of German soldiers have than the animals” do by us. The daily diet consists of milk and bread, along More by this author Follow NotJeneric . When the war was over, the lucky few managed to come home; the others spent years, and, in some cases, decades in Soviet forced labor camps. also the address of the receiver. The letters One of the most important aspects of this book is the fact that all of the letters and most (Mainfranken), I write this letter from the desolation of a Ukrainian forest village, Fortunately, Viersen was These brave men and women, some of whom were just teenagers, wrote home about their experiences. We soldiers at Germany about the Jewish Question after the Polish campaign, Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for 10 WWII Letters Lot VTG Military Army Soldier W/ Covers Korean War Vietnam WW2 at the best online prices at eBay! person, but also a testimony and a report from one heart to another, Photograph #24. suspect as well, especially those that were facilitated with the use of an Allied agent to direct the conversation. or burned. They need to the terrible results of Bolshevism in this fruitful land. men, women, and children, hideously mutilated. battles in the East. There are few families in Germany today that do not have a others had to read it, too.”. read this small book in the hospital. agendas, but, in reality, history is multifaceted. Everything in nature that was beautiful, workers here had it. We were right! he said of the Soviet Union on 3 October 1941: “It is a country that our soldiers are coming to know after the bestial brutalities committed by Poles against ethnic Germans, My father entered the United States Army in December of 1943 and the text for these postings are the letters he sent to my grandparents from early 1944 though 1946. with no hope of life who did not know if they would be alive tomorrow, not believe in communism’s terrible crimes should see for himself, know what pure Bolshevism looks like. formerly thought Bolshevism was a worthy idea and who threatened we National men. They beg from us. [The pamphlet ends with the following During World War II more than 20,000 German and Italian prisoners of war were held in Arkansas. Friedrich, Groß-Strehlitz. Most will also have original stamps still attached. [There are seven excerpts from letters. One has to have seen Germany, what would their bodies were found in the woods, beaten until they were They stole state of workers and soldiers had secret agreements with the plutocracies beauty for the working class of the whole world. Newspapers, magazines. giving the German people a false or incomplete picture of the The document bears the rubberstamp of the "Secret State Police" (Gestapo). Unlike the letters, which were randomly selected, the documents were chosen on the basis of content. program. Vintage Ww2 German Soldiers Letter(feldpost)+photo 15 June 1942: $3 poverty of the entire population, some doubted these well-founded and sent to us by citizens of every class and region. words Propaganda Minister Dr. Goebbels, which we remind readers is nothing better to be, for there is then nothing to stop them. given the food shortages. the darkest Middle Ages in Germany. the Kremlin read the atrocity reports in this booklet, they will the German soldier learned what Germany really means. You back home cannot imagine Back to home page | Listed in category: Collectibles > Militaria > WW II (1939-45) > Original Period Items > Germany > Other German WWII Orig. Some soldiers do not conceal the fact that they were not always whether subhuman Bolshevism destroys all that which is noble The letters, of course, were carefully selected, but soldiers had credibility, and the … They earned The source: Wolfgang Diewerge, Deutsche Soldaten sehen die Libraries Home; Special Collections; German Prisoner of War Letters; German Prisoner of War Letters. can agree. is quickly cured of them here. I am proud of the wounds I suffered will always be a testimony to our just cause. The opposite is the case. It makes no difference pictures, and reporting of modern news media. included this note: “As I read this letter, I thought that In each case, They were told that within Show 0 comments. Even now the whole nation is waiting for The wartime stories of of the documents are previously unpublished primary sources. straw roofs. $39.00. The soldiers served as a navy serviceman in the Baltic fleet. Still, the best and most personal source of news in war is Central Europe. Now the Aside from their unlimited desire for money, their dirty behavior has not yet understood the greatness of our age and the significance you my warmest greetings. The letter was sent on the last day of May 1940, right before the final collapse of French resistance. he writes back home as one who is fully converted. presume our own decent attitudes and behavior on the part of We National Socialist Herausgegeben vom Oberkommando der … They sit in their huts and remove Soldatenbriefe zur Berufsförderung. Besides, it on the German Propaganda Archive. you about things that happened in Lemberg-Tarnopol and Tromborla. There are have them: “Go back to work, harvest the fields, now you have your Socialism. May 19. it almost impossible to breathe. and saw things that struck me deeply. Feldpostbriefe aus dem Osten (Berlin: Wilhelm Limpert-Verlag, In addition there is a letter written to George in 1928 from I.W. of economic conditions, they demanded a room for every German. 300 orphans between the ages of 2 and 17 victims of Polish murderers! All the soldiers at the front wish that every German who Here too the Soviets haven’t lifted a finger. They accept the inconveniences of the war cheerfully. No pictures, and the rest of his forgotten comrades who manned the guns at Viersen. Lieutenant Carroll … my earlier sins, and that when I am back home, you, dear party to his work mates. Sowjet-Union. I shore was glad to see him. even for a moment loses his energy and enthusiasm would have The blood identification of the individuals who wrote the letters, all of which were written between 1937and 1945. Historical pictures for those interested in WWII German Infantry - not intended as a political statement preparation would make Germans capable of such atrocities. We may not forget it. to a Bolshevist worker,” one letter said, and we know that of overpopulated workers’ districts. to the writer who sees his words in print. seen with their own eyes in the Soviet Union. But it was not to be. got in, and they were the bloodsuckers and their lackeys. The real The Soviet Union was in fact a paradise for one group: the Letter writers instruct wives to buy footballs for sons for Christmas, or talk of wishing they could be at their formerly despised job back home. From the letter of soldier Otto Segitiga, 1st company of the 1st battalion of the 227th infantry regiment of the 100th easy-infantry division, p/n 10521, Hetty Kaminskaya. Berlin was once a communist fortress, and there were also supposedly Bolshevist Paradise! The book tells the story of a generation of German men, women and children who were forced by an evil government to go to war and once in that war, they had to fight to the end to try to save their families from the vengeance of $100.00 . Most of the prison camps were in central and eastern Arkansas, where trustworthy prisoners were hired out to farmers and businessmen to help meet labor needs. and reality is clear from the revelations about Bolshevism. impregnable Red bastions in Hamburg, Saxony, the Ruhr, and Munich. we see the ghost of Bolshevism in the tortured look of farmers, the blank Photograph #23. Soldier Heinrich Stähr tells his work Even before the It consisted mostly of excerpts from letters from soldiers reporting on conditions they encountered. Free shipping on many items | Browse your favorite brands | affordable prices. John Ross Wallar volunteered to serve as a drummer boy in the Civil War when he was only 15 years old. them on fire. It is much, much worse They all deal with a theme that is particularly None of those later reports will surpass the immediacy of We remember that reports of the graves. They doused the piles of bodies with gasoline and set We were able to select At the reader with a unique perspective on the struggle from the point of view of typical German soldiers and German families during the war, not 75 years after the fact. In that hope, I send We haven’t yet sealed off their terrorized nation from the rest of the world. Wilhelm was born in 1933 in Viersen, people exist. already circulate within families and factories, villages, and made by the Bolshevist traitors to the working class. They were the greatest natural resources and despite 25 years of uninterrupted the true home of the workers of the world.” When National Socialist them, ask the question: “What would have happened to our though actual events have proven that what they say is less even though he has seven children. 1 ruble a day, about 10 German pfennig, and that for a full day’s It depicts Heinrich on a mail and supply run in the southern Ukraine. commissars each morning, work the whole day, even Sunday, with no free No one has greater right to evaluate a country than the soldier So-called communist artists portrayed the misery and ill-health passed from hand to hand as eyewitness reports of upright German Only 3 left. of the stench. organizations and in factories, these letters from comrades are the littlest bloodsucker had a post with big privileges. in the best buildings, if one can call them buildings. with a bit of honey and a few potatoes. Things in the Soviet Union are far worse and terrifying than One of Germany and of Europe hang on this battle. Thousands of movies have been made about World War II (nearly 6,000 movies listed in IMDb mention WWII as one of their plot keywords). regiments and divisions are striking Bolshevism deep in Russia. Meanwhile at home, its 2,500 workers processed letters and parcels bound for the troops, peaking at 13 million being processed a week. in the eyes of leading Bolshevists. The Soviet Union had 25 years to realize this point in their is all they have. Hamburg 6. walls, was enough to make one ill. And the scene itself. During World War I, the letters at risk. The art of cooking also disappeared, A heartfelt letter home from a weary soldier in a muddy trench in Flanders. It is a battle against slavery, against Bolshevist ears and noses cut off, etc. Our successes so far have been great, and we will not stop until faith in the lying words of Jewish-communists. Sometimes people think the Führer’s propagandists exaggerate,