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DR. ING. ADOLF METZNER Gablonz, Wienerstrasse 2 Büca Das Sto afekretärs I Fed ot'oe Lieber Karl Hermann Frahk nuwng n 2 Aren E.g. 27. NOV. 1942 I want to hear-lessen again. Since my last visit to Prague together withiriing you received us so warmly, a lot has happened again. : After the celebration in Pankrac on lo.3.l942, I immediately returned to the front.I played a snippet to the replacement baton and immediately joined the troupe. Here I became an adjutant to a. fight group. In a Støsstrup, which I led on the Wolkhov bridgehead, I was devastated on the railway line to Moscow.We shot a commissar, who I had to kill myself and blow out my last life and several Russians in close combat, but the Russians took revenge and covered us with grenade fire. -I was wounded at the hip, as a wounded man I received a small grenade probably on the edge of the steel helmet when a wounded sergeant was rescued. The steel helmet went into ruins and saved my life. My thick skull, which had already caused me a lot of trouble, made up for a lot and I was glad that he was like that. So I got small fragments in the eye and in the face. Until a short time ago lay so in the hospital vnd am now restored. The blessing of the Order also captured me : EK I,Inf Sturmabz. for three times wound the silver wounded badge and for l4 Russian battles the east medal (three months I was not jax outside/bef.to the lieutenant, My left eye has not yet been restored. I had a strange experience.I can not hide this from you. When I saw the splinters, I thought it was lost, and one can often experience lass thoughts in fractions of seconds, e.g. in a dream. And so I didn't think of the Russians or the fight at that moment, but comforted myself with a classmate who lost his eye and saw you both in this unconscious state quite plastically in front of me. But now I'm guessing something else that might make you very happy.I was at E.Batl. in Alsace the other day, and I saw beautiful old tricks in an art store that don't exist anymore, with us now, or just at usury prices.I bought one and then it hurt me to leave the others in the certainty that they would fall into the hands of an unmanned or banished person.So I took them with me and think that maybe you have the best use for it.