248. 4/1/45-Germany. He's been on the move so couldn't write. 249. 4/2/45-Germany. Very interesting letter. Houses have a white flag hanging outside. The people don't line the streets to wave. "can just feel their attitude towards you that's anything but friendly." They are coming as conquerors, not liberators. He celebrated Passover. A photo was taken with the Jewish Chaplain, a General and dad that he will try to get a copy of. This is the first Passover service conducted in Germany since the war. No longer in envelope: a few photos of McMullan and McClintoc wearing their new combat jackets and 2 letters from Peggy. 250. 4/3/45-Germany. Very interesting letter about the German people's attitude towards them. Yesterday the Battalion celebrated their 2nd anniversary. They were activated on 4/2/44. No longer in envelope: a photo taken as they entered Cherbourg on 6/28/45. The photo was taken by the company that makes the M4 tractor of Dad's convoy ("C" Battery). The small triangle on the front of the tractor is the mark of ID in the Battalion. 251. 4/4/45-Germany. He was at Cherbourg on reconnaissance several hours earlier than the photo he sent in the previous letter. When he was in town there were bodies strewn around. No longer in envelope: photos taken in Thionville, France. Also not in envelope, Belgium currency, photos of their gun ready for action, McMullan and Paul in their battle jackets, men on the equipment, Red Cross girls and their clubmobile, their own command post in the converted German trailer, their quad mount machine guns and a bombed town in France. 252. 4/6/45-Letter is on German stationery. No longer in envelope: photos from Thionville. He went from there to Luxembourg. 253. 4/7/45-Germany. He received 4 sets of silver bars from his parents. German people using milk cows, not oxen to pull their plows. Major wanted him to "volunteer" for a legal job (not Judge Advocate) in another branch. Only officer in Battalion to meet qualifications. Dad said no. No longer in envelope: picture of him and article from the National Jewish Monthly for Feb. '45 (B'nai B'rith publication). Also more photos from France. 254. missing letter. Postmark 4/10/45-Envelope contains two telegrams: One wishing Natalie's mother a happy Passover, and one to Natalie that he is well and safe. 255. 4/19/45-Germany. Hasn't written in a while. Been on the move through Germany. Will write later of his visit to "one of the slave labor camps." No longer in envelope: Stars and Stripes printed in Germany. 256. 4/20/45-Germany. Description of the Rhine Valley, the farms there. Description of the liberated people on the highways. Said they were wearing the same striped clothes he saw at Ohrdurf. Story about how some of the "forced labor people" asked some Germans to give them some food, but were refused. So they shot a few hogs and took them. The Germans came to them to complain about how the forced labor people were behaving! No longer in envelope: photos taken at Verdun. 257. 4/21/45-Germany. Thoughts on how inhuman the German people are. 258. 4/22/45-Germany. Discussion of German people, despite their denials, living in their homes filed with evidence of "fanatic Nazi-ism". No longer in envelope: postcard picture of a "good German." Also French francs. 20 franc is French currency during Germany's occupation. 259. 4/23/45-Germany. Tomorrow he will write about Ohrdruf. No longer in envelope: he's returning the cartoon she sent to him about a list of fines in the 3rd Army area. He said it was true. Along the roads there are boards indicating offenses and fines. Also no longer in envelope: a few pictures from Yank magazine of trucks full of prisoners with the comment that the "one of the prisoners is seen daily by all of us." Also a picture of a pontoon bridge, one of the white flats that are in all the towns they have entered. 260. 4/24/45-Germany. Detailed description of his visit to Ohrdruf. No longer in envelope: article on the camp. 261. 4/28/45-Germany. Very interesting and descriptive letter about the German people. Sent Natalie two packages: one with medals from a General's Headquarters, some books on the Jews, a German canteen, and some other "odds and ends." Other package contained "two Nazi bayonets or a dress dagger." Also a "bunch of scrap metal which while it looks like junk is interesting because of its former significance", though he can't give her information on that yet. (later find out it is pieces of the swastika from the stadium in Nuremburg-story is in letter #265). No longer in envelope: photos of some guns, men and equipment of the German army. They were stereoscopic slides one of the men picked up, cut them in half and gave half to him. Also no longer in envelope: "Hubert" clipping. Sent Natalie package of perfume he bought in Paris. 262. 4/29/45-Germany. Now able to write that he took part in the assault on the Rhine at Oberwesel and crossed into St. Goarshausen. No longer in envelope: a few commendations, some stereoscopic scenes, scenes on the Rhine with vineyards on the cliffs and castles, and a picture of "a bunch of smiling Jerry officers" with a comment that if they had their photos taken now they wouldn't be smiling.