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93r DIEUTSCHLAND you are so big .. . When we soldiers in those sehon filled the S great impression my soul, which, because Division Westfalc, Saxon or autumn inclines to summer days 1939 into which he consisted of a thousand eminences, I am probably Silesian, moved in at the Holy barracks, thought probably the little taste and eat, but by no means he evening in the homeland, many of us, that fate could know them for and fester them. They say that tig in its kind, but life is a "free ticket out into the world, os with the joys of Himmei." This first impression was sometimes very strong We all, who were here from The march to Poland was quick - but at the next moment we det almost all the areas; the front had drawn along the western but comparisons with the homeland. The war seemed to have been the home, our great German father, to have chosen to feel in this fixed area. But terland, whose image did not change us again at any minute, how quickly this changed, when in the spring left, may also the experiences in which we are bound, how strange surroundings still so delightful it is that we have been deut- energizing. sche such a beautiful fatherland Here. one may possess the words Ul-. Let's think of Hutten, with ren and crst quite seriously in which he boasts Stuttgart; "Not hours always on it. Let us lie down Germany has continued to protect one, whether in the south or more beautiful area than this, the north. whether in west or most fertile terrain. miraculous East born, this our bar gutos healthy climate, how wonderful home, sen, mountains, valleys. Rivers, bearing in mind the "German Ló der - all. in the most graceful, sung" of the poet. Who says there. Fruits like nowhere else and without effort growing up, wine, How can we capture you, as one can expect in this country Germany, you are so great., Stuttgart itself In the narrowest alleys the Swabians call the irdi- Still rich and borderless. See Paradise." We know that Gehst is far into blissful distance. The "Truagerter" is far shorter in his judgment; for as your rivers run, And to the stars burns of thousands and one night.. He is certain: "Saget what he waves: s'isht oinaweg only oi And well up to God. The well in the cloister chapel Shtuagert." Wi. Schmidt in the monastery of Maulbronn But this is how woh! every kamerad from the great father-Schwaebische Charakterologie land from his hometown and his hometown sprechen. The Badcner will lead up three thoughts in this Christmas hour in Vem Schwabenland tells August Lämmle diversity of the landscape is reflected in the Men- the mountains of the Black Forest following Hünsche history. As the dear one again, he too is full of contrasts. Which the Himmer had made in God overnight in God's earth with unsuspecting is progressive and old-fatherly, before come one. seas, giant mountains, greets Strömend uno coarse, generous and economical, aångt and with it in cmen fairy palace men, wide plains, deep Tatern, there he was immersed in most native like hardly any other, in which it giitzerts very content with his work, and in sei- tribe, but also of that one and sparkles in millions of Kri-ner joy at the sight monkey he took up sinen Wanderlust like no other - stables. And to the Moseland, still empty fieck of the earth before and only to a few this see resist:echer- Winter at the Stadigraben which in glad oblivion of created on it all things noeh eiamal in the character traits. the ruin of Beilstein on the so- little ones as an image of the great. And from aun We find this diversity also in 1940 the German armies stepped and much beatitude-bringing slopes of the Moselle he had especially liked this fieckchen. It is Swabian dialect, which looks at one great span, will be pleased with the coming was the Swabian land, which thus possesses u Mina-wide, he ceicht von der blümte so das Tor in nicht gesehente Länder wide "44er. turland has become, in which one has become in kinein roughness up to deu tenderest tones, wobci opened. So the thoughts are cine each of us, Massisistab finds everything again, only the danger exists, into the sentimental, yes ruffled How much glorious we have since precisely whether it is now in the great community of our gensets milder. This wealth and these deduce. This time, on the edge of the warlike Ge- The Swabian character is like the sweet, in the north, west and south-east Swabian wine, austere and yet sniffy. How new does he feel - he remembers a lot of picturesque corners we are with the evil story, according to which the vision fever and joy of Sehonem once stood of her men at night, how many streets around the world known have our solid soldier-women to be awakened, so that sic lie down on the other side; otherwise could feel step! We have seen many strange things and customs and, as a result of the previous wine pleasure, we have got a hole in nature's wonders, its heavenly wall through the eyes of the sea colour, with an open mind. It needs to give a lan- ga. We are well-opened by sedated and sacrificial study, until the countries are marched, even if he recognizes the advantages of Swabian wine, which in its unadulteratedness and earthly struggle threatened him with rapture. But if we are finally taught "there- Kamof to distinguish between valuable and vain things and our judgment has come to pass", we will not want to miss it. The experience of scits of battle larms, mohr. This study has to be done on the spot, starting in the small circle of comrades, because outside the "Ländle" one gets manschaft, but never ending in the inexhaustible corneal of nature, from which countries, cities, almost never, "she baptizes him aile herself." Rivers, lakes and seas, as with the wine, we may really be regarded as an essential enrichment with the Swabian people of soul and spirit. What the Swabian thinks, he gives to us also it often happened so, when we stood in front of ourselves without the question to foreign buildings, how burden the young, what his fellow human being empfin- Goethe, who about his first visit of the det; therefore one can write cases of unprecedented Grob-Strasbourg Münster: "With what kind of experience. And yet she never seemed hurtful- unexpected sensation to me censored, as far milder words, in insulting-- the sight when I stepped before it! A whole, look from the Raine Beilstein at the Moselle of intention, would be put forward. Me