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14th February 1939 14th February 1939 1/0 14th February 1939 Leutstetten (via Koln) to 27 Queen Square, Bath Dear Madeleine! Many thanks for your letter. We have all been down with flu last week. It is a terrible plague over here, everybody has it, and many people rise too early and get all sorts of complications. We have been very careful and feel rather weak still. Papi was in Berlin for some days and saw the horse show. Ludwig is still in the nursing home, I haven’t seen him for a week. Mami told me his wound took a very long time healing. I’m afraid he will be still lying for a week or two. Muck has got her driving licence. She hasn’t used it yet, as she caught the flu the very next day. Baby ought to have arrived today, but she hasn’t recovered from the flu yet. Carnival is very tame this year. I have been only to one ball so far, flu made me miss another. Now there is only a week left and there is one ball and two dancing tea parties to which we are invited. Deidi has given up her plans to join us during winter or spring. She will probably come to Sarvar in the summer. Muck wants to go to England in August or September. I haven’t made up my mind yet. Either I go to England or to Italy or shall I try to get married?!!! Today everything is white with snow again. We seem to have a lovely cold winter full of snow this year. The last opera’s I saw were Rosenkavalier and Salome by Richard Strauss. When you get used to the music it is very beautiful. Fondest love. Loll Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

2nd February 1939 2nd February 1939 1/1 Postcard depicting German Type 1934 Class destroyer Z4 'Richard Beitzen'. Ref: 02.02.1939 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

26th January 1939 26th January 1939 1/0 26th January 1939 Leutstetten to 27 Queen Square, Bath Dear Madeleine! Many thanks for your letter. I am feeling very lonely at present. Muck is gone for a week with Baby. Deidi is not here. I am so used to have all my sisters and brothers around here, that I feel quite queer at present. Rasso is taking lessons in his own room. And Ludwig – poor boy!- he is laying in the nursing home in Munich. He went skiing with Muck and me a week ago to Garmisch. He pushed a skiing stick right through his leg. At first we hoped that it would heal quietly, but it got inflamed and one had to cut through. Now his fever is going down and we are hoping to take him home in a fortnight or so. Today it is snowing hard. I am glad it does, as then I will be able to practice skiing again. We have had such warm weather lately, just as if it were April. I am still waiting for balls and parties, but until now, nothing seems to happen. I was at the opera and saw Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss. It is very beautiful once you get used to the music. One of the nicest operas is the “Barber of Sevilla” by Rossini. I saw it the third time the other day. Tomorrow I want to see “Salome” by Richard Strauss. I think it must be very well done here in Munich as we have got a famous singer Hildegard Ranczak to do the title role. She was a great success in London when she sang Salome there one or two years ago. I am very excited about the Spanish War. I do hope Franco is going to take Barcelona soon. Fondest love. Loll (also part of the letter and originally written in German) Dear Madeleine! You told me that you can already speak a lot of German. Therefore, please let me know if you can understand this letter - as it would be a lot more comfortable for myself if I could write in German only. Poetry is hard to understand in every language. I still understand all words from Shakespeare. I love Schiller's poetry more that the ones from Goethe. But I think Goethe is easier to understand for a non-native speaker as his wording is more natural. Schiller's in the opposite are rather classic and more than just an art. I admire your patience that you are translating all words with a dictionary. I never used to do it when I read something. Best regards, Loll Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

21st January 1939 21st January 1939 1/1 Postcard depicting German Type 1934A Class destroyer Z7 'Hermann Schoemann'. Ref: 21.01.1939 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

12th January 1939 12th January 1939 1/0 Official cover from the 'Physiologisches Institut der Universität' in Breslau. Sent by Professor Dr. H. Schriever to the Rechtsamt (Legal Dept.) of the N.S.D.A.P. in Berlin. Featuring official 12 Pf postage stamp (Mi.138). Ref: 12.01.1939 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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1st January 1939 1st January 1939 01.01.1939-cobra-reverse.jpeg 01.01.1939-cobra-reverse.jpeg 1/1 Postcard depicting the Cobra. Ref: 01.01.1939 Feldpost sent from FPN M01900 - the Cobra. Ref: 10.02.1942 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

28th December 1938 1/0 28th December 1938 Leutstetten to 27 Queen Square, Bath Dear Madeleine! Ever so many thanks for your beautiful calendar. I fixed it up in our room and am waiting for the first of January to open it. I have got lovely things for Xmas. A orange coloured kimono, a real Japanese one as a dressing gown. And of course heaps of other things too. Baby and Gottfried are here now. Did I tell you I spent a fortnight with them in Achberg. The house is lovely and old and the whole place seems full of fairies and witches. It looks like “La Belle Au Bois Dormant”. Baby took me to Switzerland for three days. We stayed in Lucerne. It was a pity I didn’t see more as everything was hidden in the thickest fog. It is icy cold here and snowing too. We went skiing once and I bought home some bruises. But now there will be a foot of snow, so it will be softer. Ludwig has gone to the mountains for skiing somewhere behind Kitzbuhel. I went to the opera and saw Verdi’s “Traviata” and parts of Wagner’s “Lohengrin”. It is much too long. Then I saw Turandot by Schiller. He is as famous in Germany as Shakespeare is with you. By the way, I began reading Shakespeare in Achberg. It is really wonderful. He is a marvellous poet. I do hope you got our parcel from Sarvar ok. A very happy New Year. Loll Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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