393. 11/2/45-Germany. Went up to Battalion Headquarters for the hearing to decide if "the enlisted man should be discharged form the service due to having bad traits of character or habits tending to lower the morale and efficiency of the men of his Battery." Discharge would be a "blue discharge"-discharge without honor, which would make it difficult to get a job back in the States. Also had a Special Court Trial for boy who was found sleeping and drinking on guard duty. Sentence was 6 months at hard labor, and forfeiting 2/3 of his pay for 5 months - which was lucky because the crime calls for the death penalty! Went to the Nuremburg Opera House to see "The Magic Flute" and "nearly froze to death because there’s no heat in the Opera House, few doors and plenty of holes from bullets and shells." No longer in envelope: Program in English from the performance. 394. 11/3/45-Germany. No longer in envelope: No longer in envelope: Forgot to enclose the program from the Nuremburg Opera in letter #393 so wrote that he had enclosed it in this envelope. 395. 11/4/45-Germany. Will be sending home some Schuco toy cars he bought for her and for friends' kids. Also bought some Molluriaux perfume for her (couldn't read his writing so not sure of the correct spelling). 396. 11/5/45-Germany. O.D. Sleeping in the guardhouse. No longer in envelope: sent pictures so she can "make believe she's touring this country" with him. No description of the pictures. 397. 11/6/45-Germany. New C.O. of the Battalion in Nuremburg wanted to transfer him to Headquarters, and make dad his Adjutant, and dad said no. No longer in envelope: pictures of Nuremburg of a Coliseum the Nazis were building. Around the Coliseum were stacked blocks of marble, which were never placed. The intent was to make this area a "top Nazi shrine." 398. 11/7/45-Germany. Tried to schedule a dance for the men, but girls wouldn't come so had to cancel it. 399. 11/8/45-Germany. Spent the day investigating a Court Martial. He'll be the Special Defense Counsel in the case in the Battalion at Dachau. 400. 11/9/45-Germany. Description of the Court Martial. 401. 11/10/45-Germany. Snow at Dachau. PW's make a box for him to send home presents. Plus a surprise-"the presents are inside of it." (Perhaps this is the little suitcase the PW made for him.) He enclosed seven bottles of perfume and some toys cars for her inside, with is bathrobe acting as a cushion. 402. 11/11/45-Germany. Had to drive up to Nuremburg in the snow. Freezing cold in the open jeep. Not sure how the German people will get through the winter, "but they brought it on themselves." A lot of the people have built crude shelters for themselves out of the debris. Wrote that "for some reason, the people haven't done much to help themselves or even try and fix up the city." 403. 11/13/45-Germany. In Nuremburg for a Court Martial, then asked to stay on longer to be on a Board of Officers to investigate a theft at the Nuremburg PX Sales Store. Asked the CO to be relieved of the TJA job since he had a lot of points and would be going home soon and it would be good to train someone else for the job. CO said ok. 404. 11/16/45-Germany. Back at Dachau. He's getting rid of his various jobs in anticipation of going home. No longer in envelope: pictures of himself in front of the Munich Pact building and one of him in the Captain's room looking at a book while seated on a cot with several other men. 405. 11/17/45-Germany. The War Crimes Trial of Dachau personnel started. He plans to go watch on Monday. The War Crimes group said they would be having about 200 visiting officers for the trials so needed a larger mess hall, and they took over what was had been Dad's mess hall and most of the orchestra, leaving them with a piano player and a violinist. Will be bringing home 125 photos of Dachau Camp, before and after liberation. "Some of them are pretty gruesome to say the least, but they give the story of this camp as it was and is." 406. 11/18/45-Germany. Received orders to come home!! 407. 11/20/45-Germany. He's being transferred to a Field Artillery Battalion in Munich proper. He's trying to get all his belongings into a Val Pac, a zipper bag, and a Musette Bag. He received his dress blouse back from the tailor with the 3rd Army patch and overseas stripes sewed on. He got a new camera, a Zeiss Ikon with a 4.5 lens. No longer in envelope: picture of Natalie's "pin up wall paper", a picture of the Hungarian orderly with "Dachau" the dog. 408. 11/11/45-Germany. V-mail in envelope with discontinued address. No longer in envelope: some views of Camp Dachau during the liberation and after. "Not so pleasant-but they're truthful." V-Mail 11/22/45-Germany. Sending Natalie his new address. 409. 11/22/45-Germany. Now in Munich. New address-"B" Battery-546 F.A.Battalion. The plan is to go to Camp Baltimore in France on November 30th. C.O. made him the Battery Commander so he is responsible for everything in the Battery for the return trip. 410. 11/24/45-Germany. Leaving tomorrow. He would like to go by truck convoy, not train. The colonel wants to make him Train Commander and he isn't interested. He would prefer to go by truck and when the convoy stops at Metz for a night he would like to see the family he stayed with in Thionville.