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MvR writes his mother

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Die Erinnerungen der Mutter des roten Kampffliegers Kunigunde Freifrau von Richthofen. Im Verlag Ullstein - Berlin, 1937.

12 November 1914

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Verdun

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Die Erinnerungen der Mutter des roten Kampffliegers Kunigunde Freifrau von Richthofen. Im Verlag Ullstein - Berlin, 1937. p.  31 

“…Since Thursday there has been deep snow, it is freezing cold.Manfred writes very happily that he has received his fur. He has been fighting in trenches for weeks and is unhappy that things are not progressing at all. He is lying with his friend Webel in a half-burnt house. Antithesis is ill and his second horse, a chestnut, is dead. On the rest of the western front, little or nothing has changed for weeks. Gradually it becomes clear that the war will go on for a long time. I wonder if it will be over by Easter…”

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