{"id":1872,"date":"1945-02-07T21:30:00","date_gmt":"1945-02-07T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2023-05-12T03:35:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T03:35:18","slug":"page-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/diary\/page-58\/","title":{"rendered":"Page 58"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Wednesday, 7 February [1945]   Auw, Germany<\/strong><br>Up at 0700. Shaved and had breakfast by 0830.&nbsp; The weather continues mild and the mud continues to deepen.&nbsp; More prisoners coming through today.&nbsp; Each group has just a little less superman appeal.&nbsp; One odd thing which I have noticed about the homes of these supermen is that the doors are less than 5 \u00bd feet high.&nbsp; Most of us are getting round shouldered from ducking our heads.&nbsp; A few shells came our way last night but we continued to sleep or at least stayed in bed.&nbsp; The Platoons still have the same missions. This has turned out to be just another day for us.&nbsp; Division is moving into town and we may have a little trouble with them, if they try to move us out.&nbsp; I wrote three letters this evening and then hit the sack.&nbsp; I had a couple good shots of Scotch for a night cap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thursday, 8 February [1945] &nbsp; Auw, Germany<\/strong><br>Up at 0630 and ready for most anything. Today was highlighted by an assist in the detection of a Nazi soldier in civilian garb.&nbsp; It is the practice of our CIC to move all German civilians into a few buildings and put a guard over them.&nbsp; One (supposed civilian) was given a pass so he could attend the birth of a calf.&nbsp; This event was to take place in a barn, attached to our C.P. location.&nbsp; The civilian could speak English perfectly and the CIC was a little doubtful of him but they had no proof.&nbsp; We had occasion to move a desk in our house and several pictures dropped out of it.&nbsp; They turned out to be [<em>continued on next page<\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, 7 February [1945] Auw, GermanyUp at 0700. Shaved and had breakfast by 0830.&nbsp; The weather continues mild and the mud continues to deepen.&nbsp; More prisoners coming through today.&nbsp; Each group has just a little less superman appeal.&nbsp; One odd thing which I have noticed about the homes of these supermen is that the doors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}