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Uffz.R.Schneider Kriegsstend d.2l.12.43. 4 Service L 54520 Lgpa.Wien itbh 24/25 Dear Ministerial Councillor! 27. DEZ 1943 O. For the upcoming Christmas and the new year, I politely allow myself to express my most sincere congratulations to you and your revered wife. Hopefully, this year we celebrate the last consecration of war and in the next years we have the expected peace and deserved victory.At the same time, I would like to thank you once again for your mediation SS hospital for my wife.My wife has been in the hospital since the previous week, and it is a great reassurance to me that I know her in good hands. Except for the bleeding, everything is fine and according to the medical opinion there is no reason for further concern. I am doing well myself and I have completely settled in. The supply is in every way impeccable, but the wind is still much rougher and sharper than it used to blow. However, this brings with it the 5th year of war, and to which the fit and his stuff does nothing. First I was in the replacement department and have been in the staff of a flak regiment used to protect Vienna since lo Tegen. I have done well inasmuch as I do not need to take part in the stubborn service, but under a lieutenant as Head of Department in Division Ia2(Training Management)