At 13.02. the command came to retreat and on Sunday, 14.02., It went from. Here, we met our boss, lieutenant. Know SIEBECK, walked as he zürnend and screaming around. We took then our train cars across on the tarmac of survivors. If a car. stuck in the snow, He was pulled out again by a tank. Towards evening we came up with the runway towards Vyazma. It has been said to us, It outputs to Smolensk, there a base would set out. At night incursion, my truck had an engine defect, and we stood all night all alone on the road.

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.

At 18. January 1943 We climbed our wagons in Kassel, the US should bring to Vitebsk. The journey went via Halle, Falkenberg, Frankfurt / Oder, New Bentschen first to Warsaw. There we stood a few days on the East train station. Here I witnessed, as some 100 Polish civilians in a train were shipped and transported under fiercest guard. The German police made in Warsaw as follows: A German in a street has been allocated, so the road was closed and all people, without exception, arrested. Then they were either deported or shot. On a tram ride through the town, I met for the first time the destruction by the war. Our trip went on Sieldce, Wolkowice, Baranowice to Minsk. Here we got to know for the first time Kältegrade than 30 °. We had no winter clothing. On the drive at night largest readiness was ordered against partisans. We all had witnessed French rifles. The ammunition, We had to, but adjusted for this weapon is not, so we had to defend not even us in the Ernstfalle.