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Unlike the starry-eyed lass depicted above (an image that was drawn to represent your average home front fräulein writing her far-flung dreamboat Deutschen soldaten [NOT]), the faces of the average folk residing on the German W.W. II home front did not reflect hope for a better future. As you will read in the attached article, a column composed of an assortment of letters removed from the thousands of bloodied feldgrau-clad corpses piled-high outside the city of Stalingrad, life on the German home front was harsh:

"There is a sort of gloomy competition between the soldiers and the folks at home...'Remember how well I looked, what rosy cheeks? Now I look old, pale, sad. I can tell you that it isn't too pleasant to be on the home front either.'"

Click here to read more World WarII articles about life on the German home front.

     


Letters from the German Home Front (Coronet Magazine, 1943)

Letters from the German Home Front (Coronet Magazine, 1943)

Letters from the German Home Front (Coronet Magazine, 1943)

Letters from the German Home Front (Coronet Magazine, 1943)

Letters from the German Home Front (Coronet Magazine, 1943)

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