19. Juli 1943
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| Dnjepropetrowsk | 
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| Kriegslazarett 905[1] | ||||
We travel all night and arrive dog-tired at dawn in Dnjepropetrowsk, where we are driven to the military hospital with ambulances.
19 July 43.[2] War hospital Kriegslazarett 905 Dnjepropetrowsk. I am sitting in a bed with pristine white sheets. Apart from me, there are five other officers in the room. A Russian girl has just chopped off my wild beard. When she came to my bedside and saw my beard, which was several days old, she uttered a low cry of terror, and while she was shaving she kept checking her poor razor to make sure it hadn’t got any nicks. I felt sorry for her, because this razor is all her wealth, with which she earns a little money here. If the razor is no longer good, she’ll be out of a job here.
Now I am freshly shaved again. Afterwards I dictated a letter to my parents to an orderly lance corporal, and now I enjoy the wonderful breakfast in peace: white bread with good butter, sausage, jam, fruit and a whole bottle of fruit juice, which is particularly beneficial in the prevailing July heat.
The food is fantastic. I have never experienced anything like it in Russia since the war began. The food is very plentiful, tasty and varied. Plus a bottle of refreshing juice every day. The care is very decent and the nurses are kind. A Russian employee often comes to our room to flirt with an officer whom she has taken a shine to. The Russian is a picture-perfect devil girl with coal-black eyes and pitch-black hair. Now she stands at the foot of the bed and tickles the young officer’s feet. When the crawling became too much for him, he wants to throw her out and scolds her in a joking tone: “Will you stop it! What do you want here anyway?” Then she bends over the footboard, flashes her black eyes at him impishly and mischievously replies, “Play wiv German soldiers!” She is a wilful goblin.
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