GERMAN LOVE NOTE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 301, 20 December 1943, Page 2

GERMAN LOVE NOTE

"ALL QUIET" AT HOME

GOERING RIDICULED

SOUTHERN ITALY.

A letter to a German soldier from the girl he left behind in Berlin tells this story.

A letter that casts an amazing light on what the German home front has been thinking . . . A letter which made contemptuous references to Hitler and Goering . , .

Half a mile from Corleto, Perticara on the crater-pocked road westward' lies .a mangled Wehrmacht lorry in which two Germans set out to lay mines to protect their retreat towards J^otenza.

Beside the overturned chassis in the ditch was a Paris-made letter folder.

Inside was a neatly typewritten message to "Mein Lieber Kurt," dated August 1, 1943.

The Ivorporal and—

It is now weeks and months that my last two letters have gone unanswered," wrote the Berlin girl to her soldier lover.

"I had hoped you might surprise me by suddenly appearing on leave. "^ re diplomatic relations broken off? Are they to be replaced by enemy activity? "I hope you are.healthy and safe and in good circumstances and between times are well off under the Greater Germany's Korporal (Hitler). 'Everything here is satisfactory. The Allied terror attacks are greater tnan ever.

Everything is satisfactory except my 76-year-old father's home, which was hit and burned down.

"He was knocked unconscious and taken to hospital with burns. "The Reichmarshal (Goering) whose mouth was always so full of words, is now silent. "He is called 'Tengelmann' (the name given to German chain system restaurants), because he has been defeated in so many towns."