Clipped from a German newspaper and subsequently appearing in a British magazine some months later was this letter from a 13 year-old German girl who wrote to her brother at the front. Her letter encouraged him in his sad, murderous work and was dripping with a highly affected sense of trench-swagger. Outraged that his school-age sister should make such a vulgar suggestion, the soldier's response was admirable and seemed much like the prose of Erich Maria Remarque. http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/pdf/gunner-at-the-front.pdf
What I find fascinating is the courage of a German Magazine to publish - and at the height of the War! From reading some old letters to the Front, it would seem that this young girl's sentiments were very common - sad really.
