June 6th, 1944
Dear Baby
I’m all by myself now and really hope, that no one annoys me so that I can finish this letter unhurriedly.
I have your letter you wrote in in front of me.
Baby, you wrote such a beloved letter and I was so excited that I can’t even write my joy. The second side of my Baby wasn’t allowed to interrupt then, and now it became such a beloved letter.
My baby, you are writing so much futile feelings in your lines; you can read your love and pain out of it so that I want to give everything whatever you want. But you, if I would be with you just for a moment, you would feel how much I’m impressed from your letter, how much I’m feeling and thinking with you. Such soft moods, coming out of every man inside, would be there even in hard times. Look, you are a woman and it’s like natural and it would be a sign for less loveliness if you wouldn’t know those feelings. I can tell you that I feel the same way, even in a quiet moment, I can write my thought of you without any distraction. And I don’t blame myself when women are angry with me, because of the desire for you, Baby, because I love you so unlimited.
You wrote something in your letter, what we talked about many times in the past. Namely that it’s not possible for you to imagine me, when I visited you. That is too bad and because it’s possible for me to imagine every possible picture of you, however I want to be with you, I have no explanation. But one thing is definitely true; I should come to visit you as soon as possible, that you can practice to imagine my picture again when I’m not there. And because you can only do it after intensive practice and you can practice with me during vacation, so is it a very important reason for vacation.
But you met your ancient friend and classmate from the early days. And you told him that he shouldn’t become engaged, this foolishness can only happens once. Baby, it looks to me, as an outsider, that you see your entry in our marriage as foolishness also and that you’ve already got him. I always to the opposite, because I know that a row in a marriage could be happy. And because I experienced it on myself, I advise against it to no one. My biggest experience is the marriage with you, Baby and I’m granting everyone that he become as happy as I am. No more than one day ago I talked to my doctor who is also going to marry in his next vacation. I convinced him of the big difference between engagement and marriage so much, that he is very excited about it now.
Say, do you want to comfort your friend, because you won’t be there for him anymore and he at least sees that you became happy in your marriage? (That’s what I’m assuming, Baby; have you really become happy with me?)
Obviously it’s not important for you if I was faithful in
And there’s no other woman except you, not even in my thoughts. Do you know, baby, that you can misinterpret your nightmare eventually? The reason could be that you don’t believe in yourself to tie your husband with you, so that he has to think of you. And you are very good in this, I have to say that. Over the years I wrote several times about this topic, but obviously you didn’t understand. Nevertheless I keep going to try to convince you, I’m your husband and totally aware of it.
Today is the big day in the history of this war, the long expected invasion started and so the war is situated in its critical stage. This decision will also be the decision about our future. Baby, the next weeks will show how the war is going to decide. I’m confident that we will win the war and that the end will be coming soon. What it means to us Baby, we know it exactly, and finally we have a life ahead of us we were dreaming of for such a long time.
Do you know what their first exclamation was when they heard of the invasion? Finally our relatives have a break from the bombs at home. Henceforward you can sleep at rest and I’m glad for you, you’ll probably need your rest.
I also have to tell you a little bit about my life after the big movement. Via the help of big working commands we enlarged our buildings. But it has one con; the floor board must be from a horse barn, so that it stinks after horses in our rooms. You get used to it and as the times goes by it’ll be gone.
Finally the weather is nice again and I enjoyed the sun but I’m almost tired of the heat when I went for a long walk this afternoon (15k). But in the next days I’m going to get a drill, so I don’t have to sit that much anymore.
I also have to write about the scarf, I know that you have the scarf with you but I could also make use of it but I know that the army postal service is against it and you can’t do anything for it at this time. I hope that packages will be saved, I would be glad in any case.
Besides the drill I’ll get new boots, a pair of riding-breeches, and 2 pairs of socks. It’s not really complete clothing so I have to wash my laundry. Probably I have to pay for these things, just to receive is over. Thereby they raised my pay just once so far.
Baby, the mail has just arrived and then it’ll be decided how long this letter will be, because maybe we have to fix fatal mistakes, but what I rather do is to answer your beloved letter. There’s one last possibility; that there’s no mail for me this time, but I don’t want to think about it. And because I love you and I’m always thinking about you, I have deserved your letter. And because you’re my Baby, you wrote one for me, didn’t you, Baby?
But before I’m waiting for the mail I’ll answer your question from the end of your last letter. [Edited for content] I just got your letter yesterday night and it was very late, so I just saw this morning that your letter from May 1st was sealed at May 3rd and got here at May 6th, a very good work from the army postal service. Hopefully the intermediate mail will arrive soon.
I got my lost letters back from the “Fuer Reserve Nachricht” they were sent to the unit, from where they’ll probably be sent back to the sender.
Because of this accident I give them the order to find them immediately. Otherwise I’ll break up my exchange of letters. So Baby, you can choose, either you get no letter from me or you’ll get the letters late. But you actually forced me to send them because you always asked me. That would be the most important thing today. Because I’m so kind, I will forgive you that you went to the movie theatre instead of writing a letter to me. Was it nice then? I’m happy that you don’t have to go to the movies alone no longer, and that way I’m good with missing one letter from you, everyone needs some joy in your life. My sweet heart, unfortunately I don’t have much time and privacy today to write and it doesn’t make sense anymore to write. But I think it’ll be better again tomorrow.
Because I love you and you are my sweet little wife, you’ll get a lot of affectionate kisses und greetings from your boyfriend,
Always loving, your Georg