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This original field post letter was written by a German soldier who as with the Tank Replacement and Training Division 7. The division was subordinate to the commander of Panzer Troops V. The unit was then used in September 1944 for the formation of the Valkyrie unit Panzer Abteilung 2112 came into action in the Luneville area in Lorraine with its "Panther" tanks.

On the envelope is a Messkirch postmark from July 13, 1944 and the unit stamp print of the Panzer replacement unit 7. The Heuberg military training area was located there in Messkirch. The site was used as a concentration camp for political prisoners from 1933 to 1936. From 1941 to 1942, the probation unit 999 was stationed on the site as a special unit for those previously “unworthy of defense”. From October 1942, the unit was deployed in Africa. On March 1, 1945, the 23-year-old air force officer Lothar Sieber took off on the Ochsenkopf, about three kilometers from the Heuberg camp, with the Bachem Ba 349 "Natter" on the world's first manned flight of a vertical take-off rocket aircraft.

The soldier wrote the following lines:

Feldpost to Miss Irmgard Hartmann NSV Kindergarten in Würtingen, district Reutlingen

Sender: Tank gunner Albert Bückle, with Priest Färber in Heinstetten at Stetten Kal Marker
Heinstetten, 12. July 1944

Dear Irmagard!

I do not want to fail to send you some greetings from this area. We are in a place 14 kilometers from Ebingen. Nochberg is not far from here either. Do you know that Ebingen was bombed by the British yesterday? Here in this nest everything is warlike. I sleep in a tank or in a barn. The food is from the field kitchen that comes to us at lunchtime. Otherwise everything is fine. (but not as good as in Würtingen).

For today many greetings and kisses,

Albert

***The mentioned British bombardment on Ebingen is well documented. However, it was not the British, but the Americans who bombed Ebingen. The Second World War brought more than 1,600 slave laborers to the city, half of them Russians. The war itself did not come to Ebingen until July 11, 1944 in the form of a bombing raid, in which 61 people were killed and 37 houses in the city center were destroyed.