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Desert Mystery: “Letters from a Feldgrau”, Part Seven

3rd November 2025 Going Postal 0

Back in March of this year, I authored a series of articles on GP based on my translations of the Feldpost letters of a German soldier, Hans Coutandin, to his girlfriend Evchen Möller. Part 6 [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mystery: “Letters from a Feldgrau”, Part Six

2nd April 2025 Going Postal 0

In Part 5, the relationship between Hans Coutandin and Eva Moller appeared to have changed, he was now in Africa and had narrowly missed being captured. In his next letter of the 3rd March 1943, [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mystery: “Letters from a Feldgrau”, Part Five

26th March 2025 Going Postal 0

In Part 4, I recounted how Hans Coutandin had been recovering from his head wound in the Reserve Military Hospital in Lörrach, Germany, had been told that he was to be released and had seen [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mystery: “Letters from a Feldgrau”, Part Four

19th March 2025 Going Postal 0

In Part 3, I recounted how Hans Coutandin, in his letters to his girlfriend Eva Möller, wrote that he had been to Wilna in Poland, then Minsk in Byelorussia, had then been wounded in the [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mystery: “Letters from a Feldgrau” Part Two

5th March 2025 Going Postal 0

In Part 1, I recounted what Hans Coutandin had written to his girlfriend Eva Möller in his letters of early 1941 as he transitioned from being an “Arbeitsmann” in the “RAD-Abteilung 3/250” to be in [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mystery: “Letters from a Feldgrau”, Part One

26th February 2025 Going Postal 0

My previous series of articles (“Letters from Afrika”) was based on the “FeldPost” letters from Hans Walden, a driver in the Afrika Korps, to his pen-friend Hildegard Bronnold back in Germany. This new series of [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mystery: “Letters from Afrika”, Part Six

15th January 2025 Going Postal 0

In Part 5, I described how Afrika Korps Obergefrieter, Hans Walden, had written to Hildegard Bronnold about being strafed by the American Airforce, visiting the theatre in Tunis and staying at the home of an [more…]

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Desert Mystery: “Letters from Afrika”, Part Five

8th January 2025 Going Postal 0

In Part Four, I described how Afrika Korps Obergefrieter, Hans Walden, had written to Hildegard Bronnold about suffering in a sandstorm, retreating back through Libya into Tunisia, and his hopes for Christmas 1942. In late [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mystery: “Letters from Afrika” Part Four

18th December 2024 Going Postal 0

In Part 3, I described how Afrika Korps Gefreiter, Hans Walden, had written to Hildegard Bronnold about food parcels he had sent to her, his imaginary coloured pencil sketch of the Nile and his hope [more…]

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