Amidst the danger of the war of annihilation, the soldier sent home an exuberant Mother’s Day letter.
More than 35 years later, his mother sent two folders containing her son’s war-time letters to the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Margarete Hoffmann wanted these letters, which had once been eagerly awaited signs that her son was still alive, to be preserved after her death as a ‘warning for more distant times.’