8. November 1943
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| Meseritz | 
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| Grenadier Replacement Battailon 477 | ||||
| Division 433 | ||||
••• S. 153; ein Montag •••I'm with the replacement unit[1] in Meseritz. On the first day I go to the prescribed medical examination. As I step into the waiting room, I see Sergeant Gartschock sitting on the bench. He looks at me a little uncertainly at first, because we haven't seen each other since the time of occupation in Jasło, and I have become a lieutenant in the meantime, so he doesn't quite know how to greet me. I quickly take away the embarrassment from this sympathetic comrade and greet him warmly as I did when we were sergeants together. I learn from him that Lance Corporal Neuhaus, a beer driver from Berlin, is also here. The poor fellow has lost an eye. After the examination, I immediately go to his room to greet him as well. He tells me that almost half the company, the old bunch from the first summer of the advance, has gathered here. They had all been wounded in the course of the Russian offensive, and are now gradually arriving here again after their convalescent leave has expired. One of Neuhaus' group does not come back: his gunner, a narrow-cheeked, pale, genuine Berliner. During a defence against a Russian attack, the mortars also fired. The comrade wanted to fire too quickly. He loaded the next grenade before the first had left the barrel. There was a barrel burst in which he was killed. Sergeant Brüggemann had also fallen. He was supposed to go on leave shortly before an expected Russian attack. But he stayed because he wanted to fight off this attack together with his comrades first. He then fell in this battle.[2] The battalion commander, Major Glaser, also fell in this fighting during the Russian Donets offensive. When a Russian tank approached his bunker, he jumped out and ran towards the tank with a hand grenade. But before he reached it, he was struck down by its machine gun.[3]
I can only thank my fate that, back then, I was wounded already on the second day of the offensive and in this way escaped the terrible fighting that followed.
I wanted Carola to come to Meseritz for a few days and have already reserved a hotel room by the station. Carola would like us to get married just prior to my secondment to the front. But before she gets here, my secondment order has already arrived.
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- ↑ probably Grenadier Replacement Battailon 477
- ↑ At Gräbersuche online one finds a Oberfeldwebel Alfred Brüggemann who died on 23. 08.1943 in Permoga (Перемога?).
- ↑ "The Kdr. of I./Inf.Rgt. 477, Major Glaser, fell as he threw himself, pistol in hand, towards the tanks overrunning his command post" (Uffz. Schulz, 14th /Inf.Rgt. 477, in Benary p. 134), apparently on 21 July 1943 in Sawodskoje.