At 30. January, we ended up at Vitebsk and marched to a flak supplement battery, It was housed in a barracks. Here we have just heard on the radio about the disaster of Stalingrad. I was a week later with still 8 Man Abbot in March set to the flak. I/36, It was in Novo Dugino. With the Dienstanzug we went first to Smolensk. There is a graußiger snowstorm. These were no Windows in the Eisenbahnabteil. We were happy, as we in the morning at the red cross the first hot noodle soup could eat. Then we spent a few happy hours in the soldier's home. The next day we were in Vyazma. With a N.S.K.K. [National Socialist motor Corps of driving] We went with bus to Novo Dugino, then we marched with our luggage on the wide, deep snowy runway of due Dugino and stayed in the accommodation buildings. Here was also the bar our new Department. Now we were divided on the individual batteries. I came up with my friends Gerhard adhesive to the 3. Battery. The Tross of which lay in Ladygino. We have reported to us at the “Malinki-spit”, did the usual formalities and were then sent in a drivers-accommodation. We were happy, Finally, a fixed unit belonging to. We could be very satisfied with the food. We have baked even us Potato Pancake. The Pike told us, We should go with forward at the next opportunity and be integrated into the combat battery. The battery was to the air age in Sychewka. We could go but not there. No vehicle came away as a result of snowstorms and heavy snowfalls. That was right for us.