We are surrounded by the English, our trenches no longer hold, and we fight from crater to crater.
The english and American troops easily overrun our troops. We are easily outnumbered. Men who lost limbs in this war have now been ordered to return and fight. Our side is clearly desperate.
Moral is falling lower and there seems to be no hope for an end to this war. At least, not an end where there are German survivors.
Feli, do you remember Kemmerich? The man who lost his life and gave his boots to Müller?
To be blunt "Müller is dead now.
Someone shot him point-blank in the stomach with a Very light. He lived for half an hour, quite conscious, and in terrible pain".
In that time, before he left this world for good, he gave his boots to Bäumer, the same ones he had inherited form Kemmerich.
In this war, lives are cheap. Boots seem to be the most valuable thing a man has to pass on to a fellow comrade.
They are also the most durable thing in this war, as human lives are so frail a thing
I experienced this firsthand today.
In one attack we lost over 50 men. We had to retreat, many men are injured, and struggle to move on, or simply lie in the dirt, as they cannot walk hoping the medics will find them.
Today, I am/was one of those men.
I was shot a total of 6 times in my left leg. I could hardly move it, the pain was unbearable.
I was lucky enough to be found and transported to the hospital. There they told me that the wounds will take months to heal.
And even then, I may never be able to use it again.
I have tried to fight hard and with valor in this war, but now, that is all over.
.
I can finally come home.