Neat find: little letter found in suspenders

[Gran Sasso]

Had those suspenders for years (picked them up once at a fleamarket, together with wollen gloves and a toque), and just re-discoverd them. While it is most of the time impossible to say suspenders that style are wartime or not, this time it is easy:

[Gran Sasso]

My first thought, this is some kind of cardboard, put there at the factory, but then:

[CWP]

Fantastic find, I love it! "Lieber Feldgrauer..." That is just really cool.

[Kengir]

Oh wow!

Very awesome!

[Gran Sasso]

My first thought, this is some kind of cardboard, put there at the factory, but then:

It reads:

"Lieber Feldgrauer,

hätten Sie wohl Luft mit einem
Päckchen aus der Heimat Briefe zu
tauschen, dann schreiben Sie doch
bitte an Gerda Held, Berlin-
Südende, Halserstr. 16.
20.1.43"

Dear "Fieldgrey (soldier)",
would you like to exchange some letters for this parcel? If so, please write to...

[TrondK]

Very nice. This is a priceless piece of history.

[CWP]

I think it says "...haetten Sie wohl Lust mit einem Maedchen aus der Heimat Briefe zu tauschen..."

[Jan Klaassen]

I think it says "...haetten Sie wohl Lust mit einem Maedchen aus der Heimat Briefe zu tauschen..."

Agree.

Great find!

[FestungSpanien]

Amazing it's been there for 70 years!

[Etienne B.]

What you're waiting for .............write her a letter.She might respond

[Kurt]

What you're waiting for .............write her a letter.She might respond

I agree, you may be able to learn more about your "Feldgrauer": http://www1.dastelefonbuch.de/?cmd=d...p=69&aktion=38

[werner p.]

contact

Very nice indeed !

I'd try to contact here if I were you...

[TrondK]

would be nice for her relatives to have a copy of the letter- if she survived the last months of the war- and the years after.

[Gran Sasso]

I agree, you may be able to learn more about your "Feldgrauer": http://www1.dastelefonbuch.de/?cmd=d...p=69&aktion=38

There is no way to learn about the person she wrote to - she didnt knew him. Those kind of parcels were sent to the front, and given out just by chance. Obviously this letter never reached any soldier, otherwise I would not have found it...

So I could only learn about her, IF at all.

[Kurt]

There is no way to learn about the person she wrote to - she didnt knew him. Those kind of parcels were sent to the front, and given out just by chance. Obviously this letter never reached any soldier, otherwise I would not have found it...

So I could only learn about her, IF at all.

Agreed on the procedure with those letters being sent to the front. Furthermore, she would probably be about 87 years old right now (if it's the same Gerda), so chances are very slim.

Still, one never knows and if this were my little slip of paper and I would see a chance to reunite them after almost 70 years, I'd take a chance... after all, they were part of the war effort as well... Kurt