Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Grinzens

2008-07-07

1941

So since there was only like a little Sandkörndl are you swam mitdem whole. If a correct torrent and is such a small grain of sand can not defend himself, which is mitgeschwemmt.Und we were nothing. Since there has been no refusal. Since you need. When are the first dead then, lie the first colleagues, left and right of you, then you can switch from total. Then it's just more to survive. Itself still get away, get home himself. And if you know or feel it is fired, over there, because the enemy is so, then you have to fight too, or is it the same way as the others. It is only the art to produce even a single incident. The first dead. And then runs it automatically. Then comes the mutual hatred and so on. It's terrible. Every war is terrible. I was four and a half years with the German Wehrmacht. Two years in Russia. Two years and one month I was in Russia. From June 22 to 12, 1941 July 1943. And 12 July 1943, I got a shrapnel durchn helmet in the head. Back there in the neck. There is still stuck in there seven fragments. The shrapnel that are really smart .. many-. And the helmet have pierced. and because small fragments are also in header into it - or mainly in the neck. Since I was two months in the hospital. Since I am with that - "Aunt Ju" has picked me up. A German cargo aircraft, the "Jul 52", that was the "Auntie Ju". Has flown back me up with other colleagues from Orel to Konotop, which are 300 kilometers. And Konotop, which in turn is 200 km east of Kiev. And as I was then, after the surgery because I was like a slaughtered calf. I had no interest, no hunger, no thirst, only grief and pain. So I would totally have minded if I had killed one or nothing could be more to eat or would have suffocated or so. I would not care gewesen.Und after a few weeks it was time again halfway, then I want to write home. Then I asked the nurse to paper and pencil. Then I did not write more, through the nerves, so it was as if I would attack anything foreign. It was dead for many years was the correct dead And as I can not write.