English Translation

Weilmachten 1943 There was a time when we waited in joy terror war Yes hundreds of old cities expected in 1918, but the heroic Hal Empire, which according to Hölderlin's words "The and expectation of the Christmas decommissioned rubble and Asc sank and the deepest suffering of the population is stronger than the holy heart of the peoples". The scent of Christmas biscuits broke into the Bevölkang, The Krisis fate that it is tied up. Christmas! Mild glowing candles pulled the house, children's cheer and glow of lights seemed to enter the scales of the Schicksat So we go into the year 1944, to celebrate the Christmas and wake the filled the parlors, and over the snowy waved in Uewissehelt. The luck of war is stilted by the heaviest experience and hard- longing for family and home, bright corridors sounded bells and threatened to incline towards our opponent. The struggle, determined to persevere, however, shines the light that proclaims the rebirth of peace on earth, the soldier's raven of our voicing at all costs, fanatically in faith in the kingdom for which we are fighting. Christmas was the feast of the familla, which wrestled the hour of the highest danger. Victory. Millions of hands create weapons for war is before the decision. Faith Feast of love, the feast that no people so and will give the strength that celebrates the impossibility intimately like the German. Cheerful, self-forced, and only the hardest will of lile Christmas time! But when the gaze and the firmest faith wrestle the victory. The forward directed to the approaching new heavy sacrifices that we have brought for the year, then overshadowed heavy worries have been in vain. Even if the minding spirit. Uncin's people, possessions die and clans die, one must live weakly the leadership, bloody confusion raged: the kingdom! in the land. Would the rebirth of the Lich Oblt. Müller tes, would the awakening of the new life bring the great change that a people of deepest need had hoped for for years? Four times And it came the year 1933, the time of the great Wendc, which fulfilled all hopes; War Christmas came the rise, the rebirth of the empire From now on the radio carried the Christmas message out to all Dcut- retrospection of the Christmas 1939 beyond the borders, in the sound of The Soldierhood is hard, The Soldiers' Bells of Cologne Cathedral united even harder. Kciner becomes a soldier without changing the hearts of the German men and his innermost being from the ground up. Women on all parts of the world and feeling No being is born, safe and belonging to the great community, nor any soldier of the kingdom of all interpretations. For the soldiers of our division, who did not take part in Christmas 1943, the fifth Christmas the active Commissar, in the war, but in the heaviest year of the German probably the long journey of the division through history. The silent glow of light fades in Europe until today's Christmas, for these soldiers the training fell into the Advent firelight of burning cities, the sound of time, and the joyful march of the Christmas bot- of the bells drowned the thunder of the company fell into a painful murmur. Christmas seems pointless to those of the civilian zúm soldiers. The world of granny and annihilation. From Christmas we had at that time And yet we celebrate the feast of Besin- 1939 only promised that we could at least hope at this moment, the camaraderie, the love and the gen. In all German Gauen burn something like a kind skill — not 2 * with the gas mask put on through the candles on Christmas Eve, and in their snow seals and the unforgettable song shimmers feel themselves women and mothers had to sing with: "A light and a battling..- unite their loved ones, who in foreign countries- But then it came to be different. On the 23rd and their fight. And likewise the Ge- 24. On 24 December, in the school building, thanks to millions of soids who served us as a helper, just as much from the loneliness of the far north, whisked at home before the feast, the blood-drenched and the fighting noise, even if one saw on the otherwise so bleakly filled plains and steppes of the wide sootless face of the spear - on the 24th of December. In the morning it was almost a little festively the heights of the Apennines, the infinity of the ocean. Everywhere, where German Sol-If we had been children, we were standing dates, the light of the holy ones would certainly have believed that he had Christmas and the hopes and desires, before entering yet quickly a twilight the longings and hardships of the front met with the Christ child and those with whom the homeland and culminate in cords and piston rings would be flutters from the dress of the good Christ child. Thank you for the early and final re- Well, as recruits we could see such a. Christmas does not wake up the Hoff mistakes. But nevertheless, we draw strength from the great agreed us the approaching Christmas ties to family, people and home, which itself a little threatening. we especially feel on these days. At about 16 Uht it suddenly said: "Exit! " The pessinists thought that now comes and power is needed! An unspeakably hard yet a timid terrain service, but year is behind us. The opponent believed the optimists thought that perhaps the victory was near, because he thought that 43 a Christmas surprise of our young a people could not bear what was imposed on us by Deut company leaders. With inexhaustible one half hour the way was headed. At the seeming crowds of mensees and ma- Christmas glamour around the collegiate church in Stuttgart a quarry hit it. terial the rush in the east against what then came, I will never forget. Our lines to crush the dam- The company, to which 500 men ~- was tearing up, which blocked the Bolshevik flood to which also the dam in the east here and there the defense and the coming retribution. at the edge of a quarry set way to Westcn. At the same time, he broke too brueckein, but he did not leave the fiut anywhere.The opposite side fights for the past and below' on the sole stood a kineine the incessantly raging propaganda of the free run. In the south, quick Ent- Europa, for possession and profit, for the master fir tree with burning lights. Ir-enemy powers open the southern sparrow, the closing and lightning-snows hand one the position of capital. Before us, as a cicl gendwoher, sounded the sounds of an auxiliary so far in the middle of it separating between that of the new Europe, whose outline is already at night song. Before us again to infinity, and in hard, bloody wrestlings connecting paths of the English farrciche around every meter of ground the enemy seeks to draw off. Before us stands as the highest and pulled himself the wide, wide, long-awaited field of the Bohemian Moravian plain, and was laid down. It seemed as if the German languishingly to force what he had in the Sckund and the holiest goal. The Empire, which has been lost since 2000 divisions in Italy and the road was seen by Kolin, who did not take advantage of the weakness for years the European mission fulfilled the At this moment everyone is probably free to Rome. The resistance of the And also of the bomb-cracking led not Barbarci of the East to ward off, which as for so its own Christmas considerations German people, however, was given to an all to the hoped-for inner collapse. Our thoughts were soon oversized sample, when in which the opponent saw in memory of the novem- and him imperishable values, that at home with woman and child, baid here at