Dated June 20, 1941:
Dear Lady, Please make out the enclosed statement along with envelope, and hold to the text exactly as written. I can't enclose any enumeration for this today, but you will receive something later for your trouble. Please bring this as soon as possible to my mother. My Field post No. is now 41193. I could have found a young lady there, possibly, to do this, but I'm somewhat clumsy. Many thanks for your friendship. also in the past. With many greetings to you and your aunt, K. Walter. Please send me a statement with the following text. Do not write anything else on this statement. "To Mr. K. Walter, Aschaffenburg. In 1940 we received 240 Kronen from you, for 20 kilos stamps, delivered. He has no plus-balance with us. signed Postverkets, Frankoter Exp."
Return envelope is enclosed. Sincerely, K. Walter
Letter 5 to Miss Magdalene Gottshalk c/o GUidner Motor Works:
From Karl Walter Postage Stamp Shop, Aschaffenburg. To Postal Stamp Exhibition, for collectors, stockholm Sweden.
I need confirmation urgently for the German authorities that you have sent me 20 kilos of stamps, for which I sent you in March of 1940 201 Kronen, by way of "clearing sender".
Letter 1, dated Sunday, August 16, 1941
Dont write to me just now, unless urgent. This afternoon we are finally leaving. For the next few days you can write to me under "Fieldpost No. 41193. But do not send anything other than letters to this address, and only regular letters. Don't send anything for the time being. I have sent you a package with butter, which is feally fresh. You all eat it, don't use it for cooking. Give "Gaiser" a little of it, maybe 200 grams, because in the future I can't get any more. I can't send you anything either.
I also sent you 2 packages with flower in them. You must take care in opening these packages. The flower is loose in the carton, just poured into it, and the bottom of the carton will fall apart. You must open the package carefully, and on't lift the carton up, otherwise the flower will fall out of the bottom. I'll write again when I have reached our new destination.
Letter 3, Dec 5, 1941:
I arrived all right in War4saw about 8 in the evening. Tomorrow we already leave from here. I therefore can't meet Rudolf in Warsaw. I don't have a Fieldpost No.
2nd Part: Rest up from all the hard work you've don e the past feww weeks, and don't go to Frankfurt. I'll write again as soon as I know my new address.
Letter 4, dated sunday, Dec. 14, 1941:
My address is Head of Guards Hennes, for Soldier K. Walter, Fieldpost No. 15903. Maybe later I get another address. Please send me 1. The black battery from the cigarbox, 2. Pestcontrol stuff, 3. The fountain pen from Shoellers, if you still have it. Also, ink for the fountain pen. If yo send this, see if you can trade the burnt-out battery for a new one. I marked the burnt-out batteries and put them together. The ones in the cigarbox are all still good. So make sure you do not trade the good ones.
I've sent you two packages, and you need to let me know when you get them. There was sausage in them which is very hard but good. It may be too hard for you. But, I've tasted it, and it is very good. I also sent a can of meat, but I think you get less meat in a can. Do what you want with it, and give "Gaiser" some of the Wurst or some of the canned meat. In case you open the can, give him part of that.
2:The canned meat I sent you in the summer was better. In any case, keep those I sent you in the summer. If you want to give any of the canned meat away, make it the one I am sending now. One of the guys claimed it had horsemeat in it, be that as it may, it tasted good.
If you can get the fountain pen from Mrs. shoeller for me, please send also a bottle of ink along, but pack it good, so it won't break. It now seems unreal, that I was home a short time ago. It seems like such a long time ago. If you want to send me an apple, then send me a very hard one, so it won't be bruised so easily.
Do you know what to do with "Denmark"? When it arrives, go to Post Office and get it right away. Read the instructions on the card. When there is a letter in the package, cover it up right away so the man won't see it when unpacking. He need not see the letter. "Italy" will send me an answer. Also, if anything else interesting is sent to you, mail it to me.
We live and work in this train station. I hardly ever get outside. It is not nice here, but better than living in barraks. The town is 5 km from here, and is mostly in ruins. save the things I sent you, use them sparingly, for the end for the war is still far away. It can be years before one can get things again.
Letter 2, dated Friday Dec. 12, 1941:
I am stationed at a new place now. My address is Head of Guards Hennes, for Soldier Walter, Fieldpost No. 15903.
Fix me a package and send me the black battery from the cigarbox, alsot the pestcontrol stuff. If you can get a new battery for the old one, do so and send me the new one. Thos batteries which I expressedly marked as old, are burnt out. The batteries in the cigarbox are good. A flashlight would be very valuable in this darkness, dirt, and mess.
When we got here, we had ice, cold wind, and now thawing. we live in a railroad station, very uncomfortable, dirty, the water runs only in the mornings, then I have to clean my hands with snow. A very barbarian location is there for the toilet, in the open, aobut 200 meters from the station. We live in an unenviable place, but, one day here for those on the front would be like a vacation day. We are from the front probably as far as Axheberg is from Berlin, and daily we see the trains with the wounded. The town itself is about an hour from this trainstation, and we hear it is completely destroyed. Back home everything is so much nicer. Those at home who thik they are missing something by not being here, don't know how good they have it.
SHEET 2:
It took us five days to get here, because the trains had to go so slow. You can't send anything until Christmas, because it is not allowed until then. But go ahead and get it ready. In our room hangs an advent-wreath, what a farce! They can just cancel Christmas, as much as I care! I don't need any packages.
I was only one night in Warsaw, and the following morning we left at 7 a.m. Maybe I could send you a package, but you must notify me right away that you received it, so that I know. How did Rudolf leave, Have you gotten an answer from Munich regarding the 430 or 860 Marks? Do not write to Munich and tell them that I am a soldier. Only send the money, if they insist on it.
Don't put the soap into the water for long, and don't give any of my things away. don't give the green material to Mrs. Shoeller, I bought it for you. Save my things I left at home for later, for the end of the war is far, far away.
