15. August 1944
There is a film screening for the march battalion. On the way to the cinema, we march through Landsberg. The march step of the columns echoes rhythmically on the cobbled streets. I am marching at the head of my singing company. The sentimental song „Nach der Heimat geht mein heimlich Sehnen“ (“To The Homeland Goes My Secret Longing”)[1] echoes through the streets. And then the third verse: “Holy Father, who is up above - oh, please hear my childlike supplication - let me see my dearly cherished homeland - and my adorable maid again.”[2] The men sing in two voices with upper voices. Many passers-by stop. Some women are crying. They are standing on the footpath looking at our passing column with their tear-streaked faces.
In the cinema, the officers are sitting in the loge. Some have brought their ladies with them and I regret that Carola left yesterday already. With one of these comrades, who also has his wife here, the four of us sat in a café the day before yesterday. And afterwards he asked me: “Tell me, how is it that your wife speaks such classical High German while you’re so blithely Berlining away?” It was at a dinner in the “Martinsklause”[3].
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- ↑ Notes with lyrics and chant (with slight variations)
- ↑ adaptation by the editor
- ↑ possibly the 1934 “Engelhardt-Klause”; name not exactly remembered or changed since