9. August 1940
Summoned to Brandenburg on Havel
On 9 August 1940, I enlisted as a sergeant in the 4th MG (Vorlage:We) Replacement Company of Infantry Regiment 68 in Brandenburg on Havel. It is the same barracks where I did my exercises.[1]
I move into a single room on the third floor. Since nothing is going on yet - it is Saturday afternoon (or Sunday afternoon?[2]) - I make a sudden decision to return to Berlin. It was not homesickness. I do not know that. I have never been homesick in my life. Was it perhaps longing for the Wannsee? I am back in the evening.
Detailed to Galicia
Now two months of barracks service follow, until one day a new order reaches me: Detailed into the field!
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