14. November 1943
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| Neu Bentschen | 
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| Cottbus |
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Apart from me, a lieutenant is also seconded. At night at one o'clock we were both standing on the road waiting for the wooden gas car[1] which was to take us to Deutsch Krone[2]. We wait a long time until it finally arrives. After a two-hour journey, we reach the station and board the waiting train. It is unlit and unheated. We try to get some sleep until the train departs in the morning.[3]
We have arrived in Cottbus and repair to the SS barracks[4], where an officer transport to the Eastern Front is being assembled. Our stay lasts only twenty-four hours.••• im Original weiter ohne Zeilenumbruch •••
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- ↑ The autor uses the term Auto, but we can assume that they were on the road not waiting for a (staff) automobile, but for an autobus, cf. the Swiss term “Postauto” for a postbus. You could probably have waited for a company car inside the barracks,
- ↑ The station was certainly not Deutsch Krone, which is 140 km in the opposite direction, but probably Neu Bentschen, 30 km from Meseritz on the Poznan-Cottbus line.
- ↑ It must have been the train 604, leaving Neu Bentschen at 5.30 and arriving in Cottbus at 8.46.
- ↑ There were four barracks in Cottbus. There is evidence of two SS battalions, but a SS barracks cannot be identified. It may have been the SA barracks at Ostrower Damm on the corner of Wasserstraße, which was not far from the railway station.