WAR 1939-1945 135 L.A.S. (61 on postcards)... - Lot 129 - Aguttes

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WAR 1939-1945 135 L.A.S. (61 on postcards)... - Lot 129 - Aguttes
WAR 1939-1945 135 L.A.S. (61 on postcards) by Albert-Antoine MOULÈNE, 1940-1944, to his wife Angeline Moulène, in La Chapelle SaintGéraud (Corrèze); about 140 pages various sizes, addresses and stamps. Correspondence of Albert-Antoine Moulène, of the 52nd colonial machine gunners half-brigade, prisoner in Germany, from April 22, 1940 to February 17, 1944, mainly from Stalag IV B, then Stalag IV F (Hartsmannsdorf bei Chemnitz) and Oberbrambach. Father of a child he never saw, he announced on June 1st 1940, on a printed card: "I am a prisoner of war in Germany". Detained for the duration of the war, he tried to reassure his wife about his well-being, gave instructions for shipments (clothes, biscuits, tobacco), asked for news of friends and photos, and admitted to feeling down... He works on a farm, makes straw ties, clears snow from roads, sympathizes with a nice guy from Saône-et-Loire, and still dreams "that we can continue to leaf out our love rose" (January 12, 1941)... He worries about the good reception of his mandates, and is interested in their farm, their cow, their pig; he wishes above all to harvest again side by side with his family and to see his son grow up, walk, speak (but "does not let him learn the patois", August 24, 1941)... There is talk in the press of freeing the farmers (July 1942), but they were so often disappointed!... 6 postcards a.s. to Mrs. Moulène from her brother Baptiste Dufour, S.T.O. in Aussig-Turmitz [Sudetenland] March 12-May 17, 1944, and some other family letters are attached.
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