29. Februar 1944
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| Jassy | 
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| Lemberg |
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| OKW situation map March 1944 | 
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| Auxiliary Hospital Train, No. unknown | ||||
| Army Medical Inspection | OKW/ | |||
Again, I’m lying in the ambulance with three comrades and can hear it weaving its way through the hustle and bustle of the traffic. When it turns a corner, the centrifugal force pushes us to the right or left onto the stretcher. Suddenly the ambulance stops. The door opens. We are on the platform. There is a long row of goods wagons on the ramp, all painted with a large Red Cross sign. Now two men grab my stretcher and pull it out. It slides forwards with a squeak. Then I am lifted into a wagon and placed on a bed. Loading is quick. The train leaves the station.
We roll northwards through Romania. There are twenty wounded in our carriage, including two Russians. A lightly wounded man has taken over our care. He distributes the food and cold rations and takes care of our other needs. Suddenly a pestilential odour wafts through the wagon. It soon turns out to be coming from the corner where the two Russians are lying. They had an urgent need, but for some unknown reason had not said so, but had simply done their business in their berth, which could not be concealed. The Landsers scolded them terribly and the Ivans were very subdued.
Slowly and carefully, the train rolls over the house-high, viaduct-like bridge across the Dniester. Deep below us, the mighty, wide river flows through a steep-sided valley.
We are making no progress at all. Now we’ve been shunting around at a railway station for another three full hours just to connect a few more wagons. We travel at a snail’s pace on the track and spend half days lying around at the stations. One time the track is not clear, another time the locomotive to be changed is missing. Rumour has it that the Romanians are engaged in sabotage.[2]
We pass through Jassy. The fairly sprawling town fills the valley basin, stretches up the slopes and continues on the plateau. A few church spires tower above the sea of houses.
It took us a full week to cross Romania. There’s something odd here!
Once again we are travelling through Lemberg. The carriage doors are open. Anyone who can move has crawled up to the door and lets the rows of houses glide past. As soon as a girl appears on the street below, the Landsers wave and shout. Some girls return the greeting, others make icy faces.
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- ↑ Official caption by the Reich Ministry of Transport: “The transport of the wounded is carried out with prudence and care. Our wounded, who were lying in field hospitals in villages in the east which were being evacuated according to plan, were taken to the rear depot by field railway calmly and without haste.”
- ↑ End August 1944 Romania cecedes, indeed (Wikipedia).