English Translation

ha - 5 - -2 So we had gradually taken our third position on l3. days and soon appeared to us like forest runners, moreover we already had something honest sweated together. At night we had a lot to do in the following days. The bursts of small bandits, which tried to break through, piled up. Most of the time, their tactics were that some of them were climbing trees: they were trying to pull out into our approximate defensive line of fire to determine the exact location° of the field positions. Although we had fallen for it with the company "Adler", the bandits did not succeed so well here anymore. On the basis of these experiences, we had sharpened the greatest fire discipline in our men and not to react to such individual shots. The success was to be noted in that in our Batl. section no breakthrough had taken place. Unfortunately we had to complain 2 dead in our neighboring company, the lo., because there a larger ban- diten group with siG. and grenade launchers whose positions were raised, but could not break through. So gradually the cauldron ring narrowed from a good 5o km. to 6 km.. An even smaller boiler formation was not possible, as otherwise we would have shot each other, because sMGs can still have a good effect on 3-5oo mtr. At the last lock-in line the company accounted for only 2 km, which could be secured well by the field guards. Jch had formed from my company on average lo-l2 of such bases, which were consistently 3 - 4 men strong and to which at least one machine weapon, be it sMG., lMG. or MP. was assigned. Because with rifles there was little direction in such a trench, because with such nocturnal breakthrough attempts there were never exact targets available and one always used to shoot sheaves to have some degree of success. My Konp. combat stand was of course also in the front line, just like the Batl. battle stand, both thereby reinforced the boiler line. Tags- about was of the bandits, although demonstrably from prisoner interrogations at least l5oo bandits in the cauldron should still be found to notice little of these brothers, but at night then the spell went off to an increased extent. We had been able to pick up bandits daily, which were partly shot or