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October 11, 1914
"Dear Mum! The post is about to go out, so I wanted to quickly send you a greeting. I've had quite an eventful few days. I almost lost my life, but luck was on my side on...
September 12, 1914
"Thank you very much for your last two cards dated 21st and 24th. The post arrives very irregularly. I received the card dated 24th eight days before the other one. I als...
October 5, 1916
"Dear Mum! On 30 September, I shot down my third Englishman. He crashed down in flames. Your heart beats a little faster when the enemy, whose face you have just seen, pl...
May 14, 1917
"A telegram arrived from Manfred. I opened it and read that Lothar had been wounded in the hip after shooting down his twenty-fourth opponent; his condition was not serio...
August 5, 1914
"Manfred wrote from Schelmce, on the other side of the border. The letter was dated 5 August, the day when the church service brought us together on the little parade gro...
March 16, 1918
Lothar verwundet
February 11, 1918
Ein paar Zeilen von Manfred
June 18, 1917
Oskar Schäffer und Georg Zeumer tot
June 19, 1916
‘I leaf through old letters from Manfred's free, unattached flying days, when Georg Zeumer, friend and teacher, was still instructing him. I had often wondered what had b...
March 26, 1917
MvR schreibt seine Mutter
November 3, 1916
Boelckes Beerdigung
October 5, 1916
MvR schreibt seine Mutter
September 18, 1916
MvR schreibt seine Mutter
June 18, 1916
"Immelmann followed him a few weeks later. Crashed and dead. Incomprehensible. He lived among the people. ...Manfred wrote: ‘In the long run, everyone believes it.’ ..."
April 30, 1916
"We were shocked to hear that Count Holk was no longer alive. ...This air on horseback connected him closely with Manfred, who had already had some success as a racing ri...
July 20, 1915
MvR schreibt seine Mutter
March 27, 1915
MvR schreibt seine Mutter
March 20, 1915
MvR schreibt seine Mutter
February 19, 1915
MvR schreibt seine Mutter
December 15, 1914
MvR schreibt seine Mutter
November 12, 1914
MvR schreibt seine Mutter
October 1, 1914
MvR hat daß Eiserne Kreuz bekommen
September 23, 1914
MvR schreibt seine Mutter
September 13, 1914
MvR schreibt seine Mutter