Popular.' For Mardi Gras I only celebrated twice, but my heart was not in it. He lets me do as I wish and often invites me for a glass of champagne and praises me. Everything went great! They congratulated the 'young one' and me on the recruits. I knew that my men were prepared and we went to the inspection as cool as cucumbers. After you work hard for months and you labor and then this guy comes in who is not happy with anything, and makes accusations, then the fun of the business is spoiled! But I did not care. Before the inspection he mentioned that all my recruits need guardian angels, etc. He was miserable, my young team was lacking discipline and sometimes he was outright crude. He preached to me that I should do this or that.
As a recruit I received a new, young captain, who was not happy with anything. 22, 1913 in German to his fiancée Lucia Maria Mollin whom he had met while at cadet school in Danzig between 1910 to 1912. (1891 - 1944) German field marshal whose Afrika Corps threw back repeated British and American assaults in North Africa, later he defended Normandy and ultimately was forced to commit suicide due to his implication in the Hitler bomb plot.
