Ruth Deutschmann

Kufstein

Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner

Nicolse D ´Incecco

1941

And I'm engaged to Prossnitz, Prostejow has been called earlier, to an air force unit I have come. And of course there'll be right back in the office. Can write well and good typewriter shorthand. And there was a Sudeten German who was there spit, the mother of the company do not. And he was great. Me has always taken along everywhere with him. For playing tennis and everywhere, I do not have to work in the office. Ab! Most lots have been added. Also, our main man - I'm there in the company 14 days to get sharpened arrest, only every other day a little something to eat bread and water. Why - would take too long. Who was also gone. We have a new company commander, from East Prussia, an old captain. And suddenly comes the command, the whole air force unit is added to the front. No officer was there, I was the only one in the office. I must have put the whole company. The captain said to me: "You, Mandler, you are an old vintage, stay as you stay there with me.." I've said right to the captain: "No, sir, your obedient - no, sir, I want to with the company, I belong to the company." "No, no, no, no - do not yet to the front." He has not given way. I have not given way. And then I gave him the reasons stated, why did I get 14 days detention sharpened and I am here at the staff sergeant in the major, written so badly. "Determined I got to go, because the finds a reason to imprison me again." And then he yielded to the captain. And I am voluntarily put themselves on the front. And can we get all the way to a camp in northern Germany, and since we are a little training with mortars and machine guns. And then split - 4 Luftwaffe Field Division. So I's second time to escape thought. It was all so relaxed. I do not even have known more, where I had put my stuff out the heavy backpack with all the winter equipment. We knew that we had come to Russia. I've already forgotten where I had my stuff and I always round looked and looked, but what I then saw that this big warehouse where they took half an hour, until you got there to the fence, were outside the border post, with dogs ready to go? then I stop myself but thought "Well, better not." And then I found my Gelumpe and I've registered with a company. I did not know which. Has been found, which is the 13th Company with SMG, that heavy machine guns.