Stammheim,
20/10.15
Dear family Limbach,
I heard
from Vizefeldwebel Scheffel that you had written to him about the photographic device.
I have withheld it, and will send it to you as soon as I have taken photographs
of the graves of my friend Fritz and Heinz Mais, as I think you as well as
family Mais would like a photograph of the restingplaces of both dear boys.
I have lost
a lot in Fritz. You cannot begin to imagine how much we were on the same
wave-length.
I am on a
good footing with the other comrades, but no-one can replace Fritz.
Fritz was very
much loved by everyone, no-one excluded, which is something not all can say of
themselves.
Actually he
was too good for the field, always complaisant towards the comrades, and I
often was furious with him when he let himself be duped by someone again.
But that
has always been the case: the best get killed, and the thugs come through it
unharmed.
Please
receive warm greetings from your’s faithfully,
Otto Mertens
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