Uncle Wilhelm, June 1942

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Uncle Wilhelm was made into a non-comissioned officer, a Master Sergeant (feldwebel)  in the Luftwaffe in 1942 which suggests that he had a career in the army from the beginning of the war. He was a Nazi. Perhaps he was an involuntary Nazi. He sent his love to Babylein and Lisa. He wasn't bad hearted. But Lisa and Heini said that he was an unambitious boy. He had few dreams and ambitions and so let the army give them to him. And so, I suppose, he, involuntarily, was a war criminal.

In the last days - when the Luftwaffe was all but destroyed. He was sent to fight and die on the Eastern Front in late 1944. He was probably drafted from the Luftwaffe into the infantry later on when the forward airbases in Poland where he might have worked were all but destroyed.