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26 Bistritzer Bote Feldpostbrief der NSDAP.- Kreis Neubistritz Follow 10/11 New Year 1942 Midwinter: Light must return after these dark days. Let us not ask if we see it. It will happen: A new light will rise. Comrades! Your life in the breathless storming of today. The home feels for the men in the field grey In some hours of rest your Roek probably just in the days of the German Christmas thoughts on this bridge and you thought especially deeply and deeply about the end of the year: "How is it with them at home?" And: "Are they bound. If the lights of the Christmas tree have also become different internally, since the realities and when the New Year comes into being, then the probation of them is demanded?" they are all among us, regardless of whether they have come into the midst of us and in all the letters that you have at home in the winter expanses of the Soviet Union. You will have read the answer more between the tact of the far north, in the sand deserts of Africa, lines, an answer that echoed the response of the aboard our ships at sea or our planes, which your heart has long since done itself on their hard service. Probably at no time has this question been given. Yes, we at home too are so strong in the home country as in these days that this time of parole has somehow changed. nameless German men are those who now experience the reality of the struggle with other children in a safe manner. We have always been working for Germany We will not want to defend big festivals and his right in these days, always it seemed to us to celebrate, but a fir branch and a light and a stick the most beautiful fulfillment of our life, to be able to put in toys for the children also in the last; now that we are in the hut for this goal. The people's community will have to stand up in a special way, if we see our task somehow assumed by those families whose fathers or sons are walking: transformed by the sacrifice. Christmas cannot live in the domestic circle. In the past we only saw the victory, now we have to be assured to you that on these days the concern also its prerequisite. And that we now know how the people's community is bitterly the victim of the individual's last people, even if fate surrounds you. You can carry this certainty within you. his last to the pledge for victory demands that if you know on Christmas evening alone on guard posts that during your own experience, we have changed or are together in the circle of comrades. a new, invincible source of power in us. So the soldiers walk. Peasants and workers break into. A victim weighs only heavily on a common pledge for a greater and sightful and meek, the strong and ready stronger Germany with indomitable confidence in willing but frees it to new deed. a new year. We do not know what will bring us all this New Year.But we know one thing: the joyful heart — before us the goal blazes: New Year will only make us stronger, even more believing Eternal Deutsehland. and find more faithful! Salvation Hitler! Salvation to our leader! Anny Vietoris, Dr. Hugo Jury. Head of Gaufrauenschaft. Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter. Dear front comrades! Vienna. in December 1941. Again an eventful year is over and too- Dear soldier! looking back on this year, we are infinitely proud Since you are standing outside, you are already sure of yourself. On you, who are the tasks, and would have received many letters from home. Letters that brought you the greatest and heaviest that our Lord has brought you back into your mind - while being a leader. with such an exemplary cutting edge, around you has solved the chaos of bitter fighting raging sacrificial courage and unconditional will to win. Whether - letters, the bridge were from the quiet yesterday to water, to land or in the air. have you so only