Letter 185

Eastern Front July 3 1943

Dear All at Home.

I can tell you that I have been back with my old Battery so therefore I kept my old FP # and you can also send 100 Gram Parcels . I still have got some spare food but parcels take 3 to 4 weeks to get here and the parcels are a bit extra to the usual fare. I shall be here in the firing base until noon but this afternoon I am going back 10 Kilometers wo our horses are. These last few days I was right in the middle of the war once again. A lot happens every day here despite the Wehrmacht report said , no news from the Eastern Front “. Yesterda the March Company was dissolved in a happy mood. IfI write that I am well, you can believe it so what are you doing at home now? Yesterday General Recknagel was here and talked to us for half an hour. He said that a long war is ahead of us. But we can not alter it, he told us to make sure to tell the folks at home to be confident , I must close now, a Comrade is taken the letter to the FP Office at the airport. Stay well and with heartfelt greetings

Heinrich.

From: Pvt Heinrich Bredemeier FP # 10331 = Art. Regt. 117

To: Family H. Bredemeier , Rehren A.O. #12 near Rinteln-Weser