English Translation

28 O. U. the 1l. January 1943. Dear Secretary of State ! Many of our comrades are Sudetenteutsee, and in many long conversations has been mentioned again and again with particular trust and emphasis Jhr name here, which was also to us Reich - German no more unknown, of course by name from the long years of struggle. That is why and because a sudeten-German comrade Jhnen can pass on our request, we allow ourselves to present them to Yhnen at all. Our battalion, which lies in front of the enemy on the Volga, in laborious little work directly with all supplies of warhorse, lies in a deep forest on a wide white plan, which exudes as much loneliness as Russia can let sink down on us at all, tired Pahrer and cooks finish their daily work and would like to direct their thoughts before going to sleep with a hopeful upswing, joyous upsurge, because the post office runs irregularly and the service is hard. This longed-for call of the homeland could reach daily for a short hour ear and heart of the Braven, if a radio were available. To the comrades of the companies in the ditch is available a apparatus in the battalion, which, however, is no longer available, because it is already overstretched there, for which Tross is sufficient. please turn