Letters, January-May 1945

Containers:

00.0665 - Box 1, Folder 013

Scope and content:

Letters written from Belgium, Mondorf-les-Baines, Luxembourg and Gossenheim, Germany under censorship reveal few details except about accommodations and weather, but there are references to wounded and the Russian advance in the East. Currency situation in Luxembourg, French coins not accepted but German were. He is transferred to an evacuation hospital in Germany at the end of March. Reference to "colored troops who do the labor work" around the hospital." He expresses his attitude toward Germany and Germans and reports on the German attitude toward Americans. He mentions liberated female Polish and Russian concentration camp survivors and later work with starved Russian prisoners with typhus and tuberculosis and Russians poisoned in a camp. German letter dated 6 November 1944 that mentions the Volkssturm and lack of potatoes. He is transferred to a dispensary for German prisoners-of-war camp in former Stalag 13 D Langwasser, Germany. There is a "Declaration" regarding Jewish heritage in German. Describes infrastructure blown up by retreating Germans, bomb damage in Munich, bridge blown up at Ingelstadt.

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