Letter 176

Brunswick May 21* 1943

My Dear all at Home !

It is Friday evening and another day gone with the Wehrmacht. The evening sun is shining through the window and as I am writing, a Comrade is playing a squeeze box, and what can I write today about after work? I am all day with the Major, and I am a sort of Butler, a substitude for a house maid and keep his 3 rooms in good shape and clean. I even sew his buttons on his trousers. When he is out, I play Major and lay down on his Settee. I make his breakfast too . I never had such a good life up to now. The Major told me that I can stay until the front wants me back. They send him from one place to another and so they will do with me , he says. He can not do anything for me once orders come for me. Transfers of men can come very fast , yesterday 20 new ones came and 70 left for the front. The make sure nobody is left behind, I wonder often how these Party people manage to stay. The Major was once in Stalingrad and got out of it and was awarded the Cross in Gold but I hope that I can stay on here for a while. I have good meals, thank you for the money you mailed. A thousand Greetings your

Heinrich.

From: Pvt 1st Class Heinrich Bredemeier, Reserve Battery Art Regt 31 Brunswick

To: Family H.Bredemeier , Rehren A.O. 12 nr Rinteln, Weser.