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.
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