English Translation

5-3a were still capable of war, our boys stormed against the fallen son with special performance. In the enemy. Fighting against Bolshevism he was in an outpost- We old soldiers, however, thought the victims of the first fencing at Smolensk severely wounded. His young life was World War II, and as in mine, so in the heart of all will not be saved. He did not find out any more, that he had been promoted with his father, whose sons became a soldier, the anxious question of death days to the flag-junker non-commissioned officer.: What will happen to your boy? But what man will be the wooden sign of the Iron Cross, which my sons are so concerned about! Now it was necessary to acquire the hardship of life not yet had an opportunity that had been taught to prove itself. I had been proud, now adorns both grave. on that, three of my sons in front line with It is a difficult fate, if death were so diverse in the there. No real German father will enter in my position circle of a family. The unfinished young lives, which have felt differently. we have so great hopes, will always be before us Then came the first hard news: On June 14, 1940 eyes were standing. It is sometimes difficult to think of them without deep emotion Helmut, my oldest, as the chief lieutenant and company chief. Even the time, which otherwise can do so much, storm on the Maginotline, 24 years old, for three months, will never completely heal these wounds. marries. But not only the fight out there, also the life there- I am not ashamed of the deep pain, which seized me. home with all its requirements goes on. We stand no father must be ashamed of it. But it is the shoulder to shoulder with our soldiers. No one must be allowed out-man to fall unscathed feelings of painful decay. We would give more bitter wrong to our fallen rift. The man has the iron duty not to commit sons, if we only raise ourselves under the pressure of suffering, but also neglect the pain of the woman and share in the struggle of the homeland or even relieve the mother, comfort the siblings, the brothers who wanted to give. The sacrificial death of our sons obliges us, Scidates are, on the grofy example of sacrif death despite all and faithful fulfilment of duty is the best remedy. The work of stressing suffering again and again. brings us over some difficult hour. And there is every father who has had to give a son will have so much opportunity to help, to promote, to comfort, and thus to believe that he has sacrificed enough with it. And yet we ourselves read to find comfort for one's own suffering. Again and again from the hero's death of the second, even of the third. I have already lost a second son, ours again out of the dull chambers of Hermann. At not yet 18 years he became a candidate for mourning in a light world of beautiful memory of officer career and walked like his oldest brother freely to your proud sons and feels you with them in infantry. He kept the brother's heroic death constantly united in spirit to an inseparable eyes and, as he said to third parties, wanted his father to fight for German victory. German Kriegerehrenstätte Chania/Kreta Lichtbel's OKM. WVW. (PM B) On the north coast of the western part of the Mediterranean island, our troops built a cemetery of honor near the capital Chania, where the graves of the fallen of comrades' hands receive the most careful care. 20